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Conference "Building the relations of tomorrow. European Union and the challenges of Direct Neighborhood"

21.04.2007 15:33:16 - Dodane przez:admin

The conference Building the relations of tomorrow. European Union and the challenges of Direct Neighborhood will be the venue for launching the Direct Neighborhood Initiative of Aleksander Kwasniewski. It will encompass strategies of cooperation between the Enlarged EU and the Neighboring countries. It will address both the political and economic dimension of the relations with countries that do not have an immediate EU membership perspective. The Initiative aims at fostering understanding and coping with discouragement that could occur in our neighbourhood in response to the possible postponement of further enlargements

The Amicus Europae Foundation is developing a strategy paper examining the key issues and putting forward concrete recommendations for EU and member states actions. This paper will serve as the basis for the Initiative proposals and subsequent discussions at our conference in Warsaw.

The conference will take place on the 12th of June 2007 at the Hilton Hotel in Warsaw.


Agenda

11.00 Opening of the Conference
Andrzej Majkowski
Chairman of the Board, Amicus Europae Foundation

11.05 Opening address
Presentation of the Direct Neighborhood Initiative
Aleksander Kwaśniewski

11.20 Challenges of Direct Neighborhood

Vaclav Havel
(Video Transmission from Prague)

Jaroslav Neverovič
Special Envoy of the President of Lithuania


11.40 Future of European Integration
Panel Discussion

Ion Illiescu, former President of Romania
Rudolf Schuster, former President of Slovakia

13.00 Lunch

14.00 European Neighborhood Policy – where are we going to?
Panel Discussion

Reinhard Schweppe
Ambassador of Germany to Poland
Oleksandr Chalyi
Deputy Chief of the Office of the President of Ukraine
Raimundas Lopata
Director, International Relations and Political Science Institute, Lithuania
Alexander Duleba
Slovak Foreign Policy Association



16.30 Concluding remarks.
Aleksander Kwaśniewski




The conference is organised with the support of THE VICTOR PINCHUK FOUNDATION.