6th European Summit of Regions and Cities: videos, speeches and documentation  

General

Friday 7 March 2014 (opening session)

  • Welcome speeches and introductory statements by Ramón Luis Valcárcel Siso, President of the Committee of the Regions and Ioannis Sgouros, Governor of the Attica Region (video)
  • Keynote speeches by Werner Hoyer, President of the European Investment Bank, and Evangelos Venizelos, Deputy Prime Minister of Greece (video)
  • Conclusions of the Committee of the Regions’ mid-term review of the Europe 2020 strategy by Mercedes Bresso, First Vice-President of the Committee of the Regions (video) (text)
  • Conclusions on behalf of the Hellenic Presidency of the Council of the EU, by Yiannis Michelakis, Minister of the Interior, Greece (video) (text)

Friday 7 March 2014 (workshops) 

  • Statement by Jean-Louis Destans, Member of the CoR (video)
  • Statement by Marek Wozniak, Chairman CoR COTER Commission (video)
  • Key note speech by Yves Leterme, Dep. Secretary-General OECD (video)
  • Statement by Bas Verkerk, President of the CoR ALDE Group (video)
  • Statement by Dimitris Kalogeropoulos, Member of the CoR (video)
  • Statement by Markku Markkula, CoR Europe 2020 Monitoring Platform (video)
  • Workshop presentation by Philip McCann, University of Groningen (video) (slides)
  • Statement by Antonio Costa, Chairman CoR CIVEX Commission (video)
  • Statement by Malcolm Harbour, MEP (video)
  • Statement by Marc Hendrickx, Member of the CoR (video)
  • Statement by Valeria Ronzitti, Secretary General CEEP (video)
  • Workshop presentation by Andreas Andreadis, Greek Tourism Federation (video) (slides) 

Saturday 8 March 2014

  • Introduction by Ioannis Sgouros, Governor of the Attica Region (video)
  • Debate with Ramón Luis Valcárcel Siso, President of the Committee of the Regions, Yves Leterme, Deputy Secretary-General of the OECD, and Antonio Costa, Mayor of Lisbon (video)
  • Debate with José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, and Ramón Luis Valcárcel Siso, President of the Committee of the Regions (video)
  • Keynote speech by José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission (video)
  • Summit conclusions by Dimitris Avramopoulos, Greek Minister for National Defence (video)