Date: Wednesday 21 November 2018
Venue: European Parliament, room A1E201
Hosted by Jean Lambert MEP and moderated by Wayne Stanley, Focus Ireland
9:30-9:40
Welcome by Wayne Stanley, Research and Policy Analyst, Focus Ireland
9:40-11:20
Challenges faced by homeless mobile EU citizens and services that support them
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Legislation that targets mobile EU citizens who beg or sleep rough in Copenhagen - Maja Løvbjerg Hansen, Lawyer, Gadejuristen
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Systematic checks of residence rights of mobile EU citizens sleeping rough in Hamburg, Johan Graßhoff, outreach worker, Diakonie-Hilfswerk Hamburg
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The use of FEAD to provide for homeless mobile EU citizens in Berlin and Muenster, Stefanie Beckmann, nurse, Europa Bruecke Muenster and Anastasia Mikheeva, social worker, Frostschutzengel
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UK hostile environment and mobile EU citizens: how to make sure that reconnections respect citizens’ rights? – presented by Sylvia Tijmstra, Head of Services (Rough sleepers and Migrants), St Mungo’s
Q&A session
11:20-11:30
Coffee break
11:30-13:00
Homelessness among mobile EU citizens: which way forward?
Panel session with contributions by:
- Jean Lambert MEP, Greens/EFA group, UK
- Michal Meduna, Policy Officer, DG Justice and Consumers, European Commission
- Claude Cahn, Human Rights Officer, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
- Freek Spinnewijn, Director, FEANTSA
- Assya Kavrakova, Director, European Citizens Action Service
