Winning Economically

WINNING ECONOMICALLY, WINNING POLITICALLY Wales and North Rhine Westphalia: Policies of structural change for the economy and the party 14th November 2008, Neath [email protected] 9 am

Registration and Coffee

9:25 am

Welcome by Peter Hain MP

9:30 am

Policies of structural change for the economy in Wales Chair: Speakers:

Eluned Morgan MEP Leighton Andrews AM Deputy Minister for Regeneration Wayne David MP Under-Secretary of State for Wales

Questions and discussion (Panel of Peter Hain MP, Hywel Francis MP and Nia Griffith MP) 11am 11:15 am

Coffee break Policies of structural change for the economy in North Rhine Westphalia Chair:

Hywel Francis MP

Speakers:

Klaus Kost,

[Topic: overview of what has been done in the past] Hanns-Ludwig Brauser, Wirtschaftsförderung Ruhr "The current state of structural change in NRW" 12:45pm

Buffet lunch

2:00pm

Structural changes in the SPD and the Labour Party: "What was done, what went wrong and how to win back voter support?" Chair: Peter Hain MP Discussants: Harald Schartau, MdL Bernhard Rapkay MEP Eluned Morgan MEP (Wales) Jonathan Bradbury (Wales) Questions and discussion

4pm

End of conference