Conference “A Fair Growth Model for Europe”,

Panel 1: Beyond GDP: what is Fair Growth?

- Mrs. Daniela Kolbe, Member of the German Bundestag and Chairperson on the study commission on "Growth, wealth and quality of life"

- Mr. Vicente Alvarez Areces, President of the Autonomous Community of Asturias (Spain) and Member of the Committee of the Regions

- Mr. Péter Balázs, Director for Center for European Enlargement Studies and former European Commissioner and Foreign Minister of Hungary

- Mr. Andrew Simms, Policy Director at the New Economics Foundation (tbc)

Panel 2: Delivering our Fair Growth model

- Mr. Michalis Chrysochoïdis, Greek Minister for Regional Development and Competitiveness

- Mr. Paul Magnette, Belgian Federal Minister for Climate and Energy

- Mrs. Susan George, President of the Board of the Transnational Institute

- Mr. Michel Delebarre, Mayor of Dunkirk, Member of the Committee of the Regions

We want to use the opportunity of this conference to bring together representatives of our member parties, Members of the European Parliament, academics and civil society representatives. They will take stock of progressive growth policies on regional, national and European level and further develop our new growth model. The sessions will be organised in a very interactive way, giving all participants the possibility to actively participate in the conference. We would appreciate if you could forward this invitation to your members in the PES Climate Change Network, the Social and Employment Network and the Financial and Economic Network. In order to register participants, please use the online form on: http://bit.ly/fairgrowth.