Baltic tour
A Greens/EFA delegation
PROGRAMME
Monday, 15 June 2015
09:00-09:30
Press conference with Bronis Rope and Rebecca Harms
Venue : National Parliament in Vilnius
09:30-14:00
Conference at the Seimas (Parliament) of the Republic of Lithuania
on Green solutions for energy security and independance
Venue : National Parliament in Vilnius
16:00-18:00
Open debate with civil society and MEPs
Venue : Representation of the European Parliament
Tuesday 16 June 2015
08:00-10:00
Field trip to Ignalina
10:00-11:00
Meeting with Mr. Henrikas Šiaudinis, Mayor of Ignalina District
12:00-15:00
Visit to Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant, currently being decommissioned
Travel to Latvia
Late afternoon
Meeting with experts and local community Jēkabpils Latvian Society (topic: environment)
Jēkabpils
Wednesday 17 June 2015
Morning
Meeting on farm in Mētriena with Latvian Fund for Nature
(topics: agriculture/forestry/sustainability)
Mētriena
Noon
Travel to Riga
18:00-20:00
Baltic Conference in Riga
on "How to strengthen the Baltic region in the context of the Russian-Ukrainian Crisis"
Venue: Representation of the European Parliament in Riga
Thursday 18 June 2015
Travelling to Tallinn
16:30
Public debate
with Rebecca Harms, Indrek Tarand and Yevgenia Chirikova
(Russian's leading environmentalist who is seeking asylum in Estonia) Kalapala restaurant
Friday 19 June 2015
09:00-19:00
Field trip to Viruuma
10:40
Kiviõli Adventure Centre - the highest artificial hill in the Baltic States
12:00
VKG (leading Estonian enterprise in the production of shale oil and oil shale chemicals)
or
Eastman (Benzoic acid and plasticizers).
13:30
Oil Shale Competence Center and Virumaa College
and maybe also Kohtla mining park
16:15
Port of Sillamäe and Molycorp
17:30
Kreenholm
18:30
Narva College
22:00-00:30
Departure from Narva Jõesuu to Tallinn
