Welcome & Opening

Short welcoming speeches focusing on hope for what the EU can do over the next five years.

Introduction to:

• The agenda and its “red thread”
• Slido tool: poll and questions.
• Twitter #EEB2019

Message of welcome:

• Kai Niebert, DNR President
• Jouni Nissinen, EEB President

Welcome by conference facilitators:

• Patrick ten Brink, EU Policy Director, EEB
• Patrizia Heidegger, Director Global Policies and Sustainability, EEB