The Conference
The 2024 Technical Support Instrument Annual Conference: “Reforms with an impact: together we are stronger!”, hosted by the European Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms Elisa Ferreira and DG REFORM, was a great success.
On 24 and 25 April 2024 in Brussels, the Conference brought together high-level inspirational speakers and panelists from the EU Member States, the EU institutions, fellow international organizations and academia to discuss how the EU supports the Member States reform process and how best we could keep supporting them in the future.
Recording
Day 1 AM : High-level event: “Reforms with an impact: Together we are stronger!”
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8.30 - 9.00 |
Registration |
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9.00 - 9.05 |
Moderation, Naomi Lloyd |
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9.05 - 9.10 |
Opening address by Valdis Dombrovskis, European Commission Executive Vice-President |
| 9.10 - 9.15 | Keynote address by Thomas Dermine, State Secretary for Recovery, Strategic Investments & Science Policy, Belgium |
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9.15 - 9.25 |
Keynote address by Elisa Ferreira, European Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms |
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9.25 - 10.10 |
Panel discussion on "Impact of EU support to reforms”, moderated by Nathalie Berger, Director, DG REFORM Panel discussants Irene Piki, Deputy Minister to the President, Cyprus Jurand Drop, Vice-Minister of Finance, Deputy State Secretary, Poland Bojan Fras, Vice-governor of the Croatian National Bank Kirsten Scholl, Director-General for European Policy at the Ministry of Economy and Climate Action, Germany |
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10.10 - 10.55 |
Panel discussion on “EU reforms support: key factors of success”, moderated by Judit Rozsa, Director, DG REFORM Panel discussants Dragos Pȋslaru, Member of the European Parliament Bogdan Cristescu, State Secretary, Ministry of Education, Romania Joyce Cassar, Permanent Secretary for People & Standards, Malta Francesco Corti, Advisor to Belgian Minister of Social Affairs and Public Health and CEPS Associate Research Fellow |
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10.55 - 11.35 |
Coffee break |
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11.35 - 12.45 |
Panel discussion on “EU reform support for the future”, moderated by Mario Nava, Director General, DG REFORM Panel Discussants Elisa Ferreira, European Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms Niki Kerameus, Minister of the Interior, Greece Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, Minister for European Affairs, Ireland José Luis Escrivá Belmonte, Minister of Digital Transformation and Civil Service, Spain Pavlina Žáková, Deputy Minister for European affairs, Czech Republic Emil Boc, Mayor of Cluj-Napoca, Romania and Chair of the Commission for Territorial Cohesion Policy and EU Budget, Committee of the Region |
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12.45 - 13.00 |
Conclusions of the morning with Elisa Ferreira, European Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms, and Naomi Lloyd |
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13.00 - 14.30 |
Buffet lunch |
Day 1 PM : High-level afternoon session & Launch of the Technical Support Instrument 2025 cycle
| Welcome back by Naomi Lloyd | |
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14.30 - 15.00 |
Live Podcast “Enhancing central government coordination to deliver for citizens – the example of Greece” with Niki Kerameus, Minister of the Interior, Greece and Yiannis Hadjiyiannis, Head of Unit, DG REFORM |
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15.00 - 15.20 |
Live Podcast “Creating a common European culture of digital finance supervision” with Steven Maijoor, Executive Board Member of Supervision at the De Nederlandsche Bank, and Nathalie Berger, Director, DG REFORM |
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15.20 - 15.40 |
Live Podcast “Partnerships with International Organisations” with Ulrik Vestergaard Knudsen, OECD Deputy Secretary-General, and Judit Rozsa, Director, DG REFORM |
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15.40 - 15.50 |
Conclusion of the high- level discussions and Launch of the TSI 2025 by Mario Nava, Director General, DG REFORM |
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15.50 - 16.10 |
Live podcast “TSI 2025 cycle and latest trends” with Judit Rozsa, Director, DG REFORM and Naomi Lloyd |
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16.10 - 16-25 |
Closing address by Mario Nava, Director General, DG REFORM |
Day 2 AM: Presentation of the Technical Support Instrument Flagship projects 2025
Moderator: Raquel Lucas, Head of Unit TSI Coordination, DG Reform
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9:30 - 9:35 |
Introductory remarks, Political framing and Context / Reflections on Day 1 Judit Rozsa, Director, DG REFORM |
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9.35 - 9.45 |
“TSI 2025, flagship technical support projects – pursuing EU policy goals” presentation by Nathalie Berger, Director, DG REFORM |
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9.45 - 10:30 |
Panel “Flagships and EU priorities” with representative of DGs, moderated by Yiannis Hadjiyannis, Head of Unit, DG REFORM William Sleath – SG Benjamin Angel - DG TAXUD Silvia Michelini – DG HOME Mary Veronica Tovsak Pleterski – DG GROW |
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10:30 - 11:00 |
Thematic presentation of Flagships on Strengthening Public Administrations, with Kjartan Björnsson, Head of Unit, DG REFORM |
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11:00 - 11.30 |
Coffee break |
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11:30 - 12:00 |
Thematic presentation - Flagships on Competitiveness and Sustainability, with Kaspar Richter and Laura Rinaldi, Heads of Unit, DG REFORM |
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12:00 - 12:30 |
Thematic presentation - Flagships on Health, Demography, and Public finances and Revenue administration, and migration with Raluca Painter and Christoph Schwierz, Heads of Unit, DG REFORM |
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12:30 - 12:35 |
Closing address by Judit Rozsa, Director, DG REFORM |
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12:35 |
End of event |
Speakers Annual Conference 2024
2025 Flagship Technical Support Projects
The proposed 2025 Flagship technical support projects have been selected on the basis that they are largely needed across Member States and are linked to top EU priorities the Member States are in the process of implementing. As such, they aim at supporting Member States in achieving resilience and growth enhancing reforms.
- ComPAct - Pillar I - Skills for public administration systems
- ComPAct - Pillar II - Capacity for Europe's Digital Decade
- ComPAct - Pillar III - Greening Public Administration
- Economic Security in Technologies and Resources (ESTER)
- Innovative Public Financial Management
- EU Health Hub – Investing in Resilient Health System
- EU Supervisory Digital Finance Academy
- Improving Sustainability Reporting for Businesses
- Making Energy Systems Fit for the Green and Digital Transition
- PACE - Public Administration Cooperation Exchange
- Simplifying Revenue Administration for Businesses
- Single Market and Competitiveness
- Support implementation of the Migration and Asylum Pact
- Supporting the Resilience of Natural Resources
- Addressing Demographic Change Through Reforms