Wednesday, 14 January

20:00 – 22:00
Progressive Open Mic
Welcome drink and tapas

Thursday, 15 January

09:15 – 09:30
Registrations

09:30 – 09:45
Welcome and Opening
Carolina Darias San Sebastián, Mayor of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Luca Menesini, President of the PES Group in the European Committee of the Regions
João Martins Pereira, President of the Young European Socialists (YES)
 

09:45 – 10:45
Session I: EU Budget — Waste of Money or Added Value?
Jean-Marc Germain, S&D Members of the European Parliament
Alison Gilliland, European Climate Pact Ambassador & former CoR member and Dublin Mayor & Councillor

10:40 – 11:00
Coffee break ☕︎

11:OO – 12:00
Session II: Meet Your Progressive Leader 

Nuška Gajšek, Mayor of Ptuj, Slovenia
Antje Grotheer, President of the Bremen State Parliament, Germany &1st Vice- President of the PES Group in the European Committee of the Regions
Joško Klisović, Member of the Zagreb City Assembly, Croatia, & Vice- President of the PES Group in the European Committee of the Regions
Pascal Smet, Member of the Parliament of the Brussels- Capital Regions, Belgium 

12:OO – 13:00
Session III: “Youth for Democracy: Turning Social Media into a Force for Change” organised by the Young European Socialists (YES)

13:00 – 15:00
Lunch break ☕︎

15:00 – 19:00
PES Group Extraordinary Meeting

19:30 – 21:00
Citizen’s Debate

21:30 – 23:00
Walking dinner  (YEPs, Members, Participants) - Bodegón del Pueblo Canario  - C. Francisco González Díaz, 6, 35005 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las  Palmas, España

Friday, 16 January

09:OO – 10:30
Session IV: Democracy at the brink: what’s next? Workshop by the S&D Group in the European Parliament, chaired by Thomas Bajada, S&D Member of the European Parliament

10:30 – 10:45
Coffee break and family picture ☕︎

10:45 – 12:00
Session V: Drafting 10 Points to Fight for Democracy

12:00 – 12:15
Closing remarks

Iratxe García Pérez, President of S&D Group in the European Parliament 
Luca Menesini, President of the PES Group in the European Committee of the Regions

12:15 – 13:15
Lunch 

13:30 – 15:30

Visit to the Foundation Juan Negrin (optional)

You’re invited to visit the Foundation Juan Negrin in the context of the 50th anniversary of Spain’s democratic transition, with historical context on Juan Negrín, last Prime Minister of the Second Republic, and his early defence of democratic legitimacy and constitutional order in the face of authoritarianism at📍 C. Reyes Católicos, 30, 35001 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas, Espagne.