Taxing Financial Transactions for a Fairer World: Here & Now - Major Conference on FTT, 14 Sept, Paris

Please see below an official invitation to Taxing Financial Transactions for a Fairer World, in Paris on 14th September, a high-level conference on the feasibility and practicalities of the FTT.

Please find attached a draft agenda for a very important European civil society campaign planning session which will follow immediately after the conference. Please ensure email charlotte@stampoutpoverty.org should you wish to attend the afternoon session.

Invitation, Conference - Taxing financial transactions for a fairer world : here and now
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INVITATION AND REGISTRATION HERE

UNITAID, The Life Organization, UNESCO, Oxfam France, CARE France, AIDES, Coordination SUD, Coalition Plus, Stamp Out Poverty & UBUNTU

Taxing financial transactions
for a fairer world :
here and now
Wednesday September 14th 2011

9.00am - 12.30pm

Room 4, UNESCO

7 Place de Fontenoy, 75015 Paris

PROGRAMME

8h30 * Registration

9h00 * Opening speeches
- Irina Bokova (UNESCO)
- Philippe Douste-Blazy (UN, UNITAID)
- Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet (French Minister For Ecology, Sustainable Development, Transport and Housing)

9h45 * Break
10h00 * 1st round-table : Feasibility of the FTT
- Jean-Pierre Jouyet (President of the Financial Markets' Authority, France)
- Arielle de Rothschild (CARE France, Rothschild & Cie)
- Jean-Manuel Rozan (The Life Organization)

10h30 * Q&A with audience

11h00 * Break

11h15 * 2nd round-table : Best use of funds raised by the FTT
- Jean-Louis Borloo (French National Assembly, President of the Radical Party)
- Carsten Sieling (German Bundestag, SPD)
- Carol Nawina Nyirenda (Treatment, Advocacy and Literacy Campaign [TALC], Zambia)
- Ingrid Fiskaa (State Secretary for International Development, Norway)

11h45 * Q&A with audience

12h15 * Closing speech

12h30 * End of the conference

12h45 * Press Conference : launch of the implementation guide for an FTT in France

More speakers are expected, awaiting for confirmation of their attendance