Join the meeting with Vice-President of the European Commission Jyrki Katainen

Europe – youth – investments – jobs – refugee crisis – euro – your opinion?

Vice-President of the European Commission, responsible for Jobs, Growth, Investments and Competitiveness Jyrki KATAINEN will visit Slovenia on 9 October 2015 to present the Investment Plan for Europe.

During his visit he would like to exchange opinion on the current affairs in the EU with you – the students.

That is why we invite you to join

the meeting with Vice-President of the European Commission Jyrki Katainen

and to exchange with him your opinion on:

“Europe at crossroads – Economic, Social and Political Challenges”.

The meeting will be held on Friday, 9 October 2015, between 11:00-11:45

at the Faculty of Economics University of Ljubljana.

Short introductory remarks will be followed by Q&A with you.

Lecture will be held in English.

Warmly welcome to join!

The lecture is hosted as part of Jean Monnet activities of the course Economic policies of the EU.

CV

Jyrki Katainen (born in 1971) is since November 2014 one of seven Vice-Presidents of the European Commission. As responsible for Jobs, Growth, Investments and Competitiveness he prepared in cooperation with several commissioners the first big initiative of the current Juncker’s Commission “The Investment Plan for Europe”.

Before joining the European Commission, Katainen held several top political positions in Finland. He was the Prime-Minister of Finland for three years (2011-2014. Between 2007-2011he was Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of Finland. Katainen was for 15 years (between 1999-2014) Member of the Finish Parliament and served for 10 years (2004-2014) as the President of the Finnish National Coalition Party.

He obtained a Master’s degree in political science from the University of Tampere.

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