Debenelux Shared societies Liberal cooperation across borders An ALDE Party conference organised by D66 in cooperation with: 27 and 28 April 2013 Enschede, The Netherlands Saturday 27 April 17.00 Welcome in Grolsch Veste, the stadium of football club FC Twente. Moderator: Michiel Scheffer, Vice-President of the D66 association for political representatives and Leader of the D66 group in the Gelderland regional council 17.30 - 17.45 Opening of the conference by Jeroen Hatenboer (VVD) Alderman of Enschede and Han ten Broeke, Member of Parliament VVD 17.45 - 18.30 Presentations of party history, identity and current politics by the participating parties FDP: Alexander Plahr, Chair international OpenVLD: Hilde Vautmans, International Secretary committee NRW Mouvement Réformateur: Jean-Philipp Rousseau, VVD: Han ten Broeke, MP International Secretary (tbc) D66: Piet Brouwer, President D66 Enschede Demokratesch Partei: Xavier Bettel (tbc) 18:30 Dinner reception, kindly offered by the city of Enschede and the ALDE Party Sunday 28 April 9.45 – 10:00 Welcome by Mieke Damsma, Deputy-Mayor of the city of Maastricht 10:00 - 10.20 Opening of the second day of the conference by Otto Fricke, Member of the Bundestag and Treasurer of FDP “Dutch – German relations” 10:20 – 10:30 Presentation of joint initiatives in the Overijssel – Bad Bentheim region by Marc Enschede (D66 Enschede) and representative of FDP Bad Bentheim 10:30 – 10:45 Luc Willems, Secretary-General Benelux Unie 10:45 – 11:00 Break 11.00 – 12.30 First round of group meetings Fringe meeting: Education and Labour Market ELF Seminar: Governing governance, developing a new paradigm Introduction by: Paul van Meenen, Member of Parliament (D66) Introduction by: Gemma Kwantes, D66 Municipal Councilor in and former Chairman of the Spinoza community of colleges the city of Zaandam & speaker on behalf of the Mr. Hans van Commentator: Gerda Bruins, Leader of VVD in Hof van Twente Mierlo foundation (tbc) Commentator: Bart Lateur, Leader of OpenVLD in Zottegem and Moderator: Thomas Leys, President of the international working for the Liberaal Kenniscentrum federation of liberal youth (IFLRY) and former OpenVLD Councillor in the city of Leuven Moderator: David Weytsman, Mouvement Réformateur Councillor in Brussels, President Jeunes MR Brussels region (tbc) 12.30 – 13.30 Lunch 13.30 – 13.45 2013 Year of the European Citizen by Hayke Veldman, Leader of VVD Nijmegen 13.45 – 14:00 “The importance of liberal cooperation across borders, an European perspective” by Xavier Bettel, President of Demokratesch Partei and Mayor of Luxemburg (tbc) or Sjoerd Sjoerdsma, Member of Parliament for D66 14.00 – 15.30 Second round of group meetings (coffee and tea are served in the rooms) Fringe meeting: mobility and infrastructure Fringe meeting: Law enforcement cooperation Introduction by: Bart Tommelein, Deputy-Mayor Oostende and Introduction by: Robert Orth, Chair of the FDP group in the member of the Flemish Parliament (OpenVLD) Dusseldorf municipal council (tbc) Commentator: Gerrit-Jan Kok, Governor Overijssel (VVD) (tbc) Commentator: representative of OpenVLD Moderator: Ivo Thonon, Member of the Utrecht provincial Moderator: representative of D66 council for D66 15.30 – 15.45 Closing speech by Bart Tommelein Deputy-Mayor Oostende and member of the Flemish Parliament (OpenVLD) (tbc) 15.45 – 16:30 Goodbye reception .