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Home > Events > The Southern Gas Corridor: energy security, democracy and human rights violations from Italy to Azerbaijan

The Southern Gas Corridor: energy security, democracy and human rights violations from Italy to Azerbaijan

Event details


When?
Tuesday, May 5, 2015
2 pm – 5.30 pm

Where?
Résidence Palace
155, rue de la Loi
1040 Brussels, Belgium


Event invitation & agenda (pdf)

Register online
(Registration is obligatory.)

The conference will be structured as follows:

Introductory remarks – 10 min
By MEP Claude Turmes (Greens/EFA, Luxembourg) and Counter Balance

Session 1 – Energy security for whom? The case of human rights violations in Azerbaijan – 90 min

  • Panel discussion with: Kenan Aliyev, RFE journalist; Human Rights House; Emma Hugues (Platform UK), representatives of the EBRD, EIB and European External Action Service (tbc)
  • Video intervention from: Emin Milli (Editor Meydan TV) & Khadija Ismaylova (investigative journalist arrested on December 16th 2014 by the Azerbaijan authorities)
  • Q&A session and interventions from the audience

Coffee break – 15 min

Session 2 – Projects of Common Interest – in whose interest? The Italian resistance to the Trans Adriatic Pipeline – 90 min

  • Panel discussion with: Marco Potì, Major of Melendugno, Lecce (Italy) (tbc); representative of No TAP Committee (Italy); Members of the European Parliament; Elena Gerebizza, Re:Common (Italy); representative of the EBRD, EIB and European Commission (tbc)
  • Q&A session and interventions from the audience

Final comments and conclusions – 5 minutes
by MEP Claude Turmes (Greens/EFA, Luxembourg)

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