Conference timetable
The conference will be simultaneous translated into English, French and German.Friday, 15/05/2009, 7.00 pm, Landtag, state parliament Düsseldorf
Organizer of the discussion event on the 15th of May in the state parliament of Dusseldorf is the GREEN Landtag group North Rhine-Westphalia in cooperation with the coalition »Bahn für alle«. The visit of this event is free.
- Political satire – a contribution of the artist Frank Lüdecke
- Presentation of a capital spending and job creation programme for the European rail traffic: Winfried Wolf
- Panel discussion: "Global economic crisis - Risks and opportunity for
climate, environment and rail” with guests from trade unions, politics
and society with
- Bob Crow, Great Britain, union, general secretary RMT
- Peter Conradi, Germany, Bahn für Alle, SPD
- Horst Becker, transport spokesman German Green Party North Rhine-Westphalia
Saturday, 16/05/2009, 9:00 am to 6:00 pm
- Rail privatisation from an European point of view - examples ranging from the initial public offering to public responsiveness with
- Alex Gordon, Great Britain, union, executive committee RMT
- Prof. Karl-Dieter Bodack, Germany, Bahn für Alle, transport specialist
- Prof. Wolfgang Hesse, Germany, Bahn für Alle, transport specialist
- José Manuel Olivièra, Portugal, union, President of SNTSF
- Christian Zeller, Switzerland, scientist
- Initial statements to the plenum, workshops afterwards:
- Green new (rail) deal: Michael Cramer, Member of the European parliament, Green Party, Germany
- People’s Railway 2020: Prof. Wolfgang Hesse, Germany, Bahn für Alle, transport specialist
- Rail-friendly European politics: Prof. Heiner Monheim, Germany, scientist and urban planner
- European system of night trains: Barbara Huber Germany, transport specialist and employee in night trains
- Demonstration with European trade unionists at Cologne main railway station and/or at the front of Cologne Cathedral
- Union representatives of GB and France
- Alfred Lange, Germany, shop chairman, former member of the executive committee of Transnet
changes in the event and concerning the speakers reserved
update: 13.05.09
