9.00 Welcome by Anthony TEASDALE, Director General, EPRS, EP

9.10 Introduction by Johan VAN OVERTVELDT, MEP, Chair of the EP Committee on Budgets

9.20 Scene-setting remarks by Margarida MARQUES, MEP, MFF Co-Rapporteur; and Valerie HAYER, MEP, Own Resources Co-Rapporteur

9.40 Panel 1: By spending at EU level we save at national level

• Jorge NUÑEZ FERRER, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for European Policy Studies Discussion

10.20 Panel 2: A new package for finance and expenditure in the EU budget

• Giacomo BENEDETTO, Professor, University of London
• Alessandro D’ALFONSO, Policy Analyst, Budgetary Policies Unit, EPRS Discussion

11.05 Panel 3: The benefits outweigh the costs of flexibility in the MFF

• Eulalia RUBIO, Senior Research Fellow, Jacques Delors Institute
• Magdalena SAPALA, Policy Analyst, Budgetary Policies Unit, EPRS Discussion

11.50 Panel 4: Legal and procedural challenges ahead

• Richard CROWE, EP Legal Service

Discussion

12.30 Closing remarks by Jan OLBRYCHT, MEP, MFF Co-Rapporteur; José Manuel FERNANDES, MEP, Own Resources Co-Rapporteur; and Rasmus ANDRESEN, MEP, Member of the MFF negotiating tea