Young Leaders XXIII/3
Young Leaders XXIII/part 3:
Challenges in the Economic and Social Life
17-21 January, in Budapest Hungary
with the cooperation of Eduardo Frei Foundation, the Netherlands
The Robert Schuman Institute started the 23rd “Young Leaders” series of courses in cooperation with the Eduardo Frei Foundation (EFF). The first course, entitled “Basics of a Democracy” took place in Budapest between 13-17 September. 19 perspective young politicians were delegated by EPP parties from Eastern and South-Eastern Europe to develop skills and enlarge their horizons. The second part of the series was organized between 8-12 November and focused on international and security issues.
The third – and final – part of the series is took place between 17-21 January, 2017 where we elaborated on the challenges in the economic and social life. The main agenda of the week included economics for politicians – from the basis to economy policies, nation states and international financial organisations, globalisation and its impact on everyday policy making, public private partnership in building regional economic capacity, privatisation and foreign direct investments, European economic policies, EU funds, dilemmas of designing social protection systems, social dialogue, labour relations, unemployment, higher education reform: matching education to labour market needs, welfare system reform: retirement systems in an ageing Europe, the health sector. Additionally, the group had debating training and learned about leadership management.
We had the pleasure to welcome Jeroen Lenaers MEP and Hubert Beusmans from CDA as speakers on social dialogue.
