Organisers: Department of Social Rights, DGI Council of Europe
Venue : Palace of the Republic: Library Biblioteca "Onisifor Ghibu", Nicolae Iorga 21 A str.
PROGRAMME
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Meeting ID: 848 4969 7668
Passcode: LCM2026
he current global and European political momentum — including the adoption of the Doha Political Declaration in November 2025, the preparation of the new Pillar Action Plan and the High-Level Conference on Social Rights, the European Social Charter in March 2026 — offer a unique opportunity to strengthen coherence between parallel frameworks so as to progress a common (European) social rights architecture.
The event will explore how the European Social Charter and the European Pillar of Social Rights can operate together to reinforce social justice; strengthen democratic stability and improve implementation of social rights in everyday life. Social rights and social justice are key topics in the Council of Europe’s ongoing political and strategic consultations for a New Democratic Pact for Europe.
The objective of this event is to identify concrete mechanisms through which EU policies and the European Pillar of Social Rights can be operationally linked to Charter standards and monitoring, transforming complementarity into functional cooperation and ensuring that social rights produce tangible improvements in people’s daily lives.
Programme
16:15| Welcome coffee and registration
Moderator: Gianluca ESPOSITO, Director General of Human Rights and Rule of Law, Council of Europe
16:30 | Panel Discussion
- Olivier De SCHUTTER, Member of the European Committee of Social Rights (tbc)
- Laura CORRADO, Head of Unit for International Affairs in DG EMPLOYMENT European Commission
- Maria do Rosário PALMA RAMALHO, Minister of Labour, Solidarity and Social Security, Portugal
- Dastid KORESHI, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Representative of Albania to the Council of Europe
- Marcel SPATARI, Chair of the Parliamentary Committee on European Integration, Parliament of theRepublic of Moldova
- Isabelle SCHÖMANN, Deputy General Secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation
Q&A
18:00 | Closing of the Event