Event report

Follow-up report: Online Talk "Portuguese Presidency of the EU: Paving the way for the Conference on the Future of Europe’. 28 TN via Zoom PART 1: Welcome by Lidia Nabais, Portuguese Consultant General in Düsseldorf, and Evgenia Strauß, ED Düsseldorf PART 2: Presentation of the priorities of the Portuguese Presidency by Carla Grijó, Deputy Director-General for European Affairs at the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. • Social dimension (organisation of the Social Summit in Porto on 7 May)• Digitalisation: Promoting a digital transformation at the service of humanity• Green Agenda: Taking a leading role in climate action• Strengthening Europe as an international actor while being open to the world PART 3: Presentation of the Conference on the Future of Europe, incl. digital platform PARL 4: Moderated Q & A, among others: • Who exactly within the EU is responsible for the approval of the national recovery plans. Deadline? • Status of and perspective on the migration issue? • How will the citizens’ ideas in the Conference on the Future of Europe find their way into the institutions? Who needs them to be heard and dealt with? • Is the platform ready technically finalised or is it a sort of beta version with final start in full functionality on 9th of May? I’m asking cause I tried from multiple places and loading times are up to 18 seconds. Regarding the goal of digitisation this is not connecting as a digital technical offer coming from the EU. • How do you ensure identification of EU citizens? As far as I can see a fake account is enough to contribute.