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HOUSING: ACCESS AND RIGHTS
23 May @ 13h00 - 20h00
HOUSING: ACCESS AND RIGHTS
📅 Date: 23/5/2025 | 13:00 – 20:00
📍 Location: European Parliament in Athens, Leof. Amalias 8. Athens
Program 13:00-14:00 Workshop
🕘 14:00 – 14.30 – Opening Session 🔹 Greetings and Introduction
- Boris Kanzleiter, Director of the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung – Office in Greece
- Maria Repoussi, Director of Nikos Poulantzas Institute
- Walter Baier, President of the Party of the European Left
- Kostas Arvanitis, MEP, Vice President of The Left
- Olga Nassis, Housing Campaign European Left
🕓 14:30 – 16:30 | First Session – Social Organization’s roundtable 🔹 Tenant’s Unions and housing struggles
Speakers:
- Silvia Paoluzzi, Tenants’ Union Italy – Unione Inquilini (General Secretary)
- Fernando de los Santos, Tenants’ Union Spain – Sindicato de Inquilinas
- Nikos Vrantzis, Tenants’ Union Greece – Enosi Enikias(tr)ion Thessaloniki
🕘 17:00 – 19:00 | Second Session – Political roundtable 🔹 Strategies Against Speculation and Housing Funding
Speakers:
- Wenke Christoph, Die Linke, Former Undersecretary of State for Urban Development and Housing of the Berlin Senate.
- Theano Fotiou, MP Nea Aristera, Former Minister for Social Policies and housing
- Nikos Pappas, Mp , Parliamentary Representative of SYRIZA PA.
- Nikolas Farantouris, MEP the Left, SYRIZA PA
- Maria Stratigaki, Deputy Mayor for Social Solidarity & Equality
🔹 19h00 Summary and Concrete Commitments for the Future
Closing comments: Walter Baier, President of the Party of the European Left