Friday, 24 June

7.30 pm Welcome remarks
Thomas Bernd Stehling, Director, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Office for Spain and Portugal

Speech by Paulo Portas MP, Leader of the CDS-PP and Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs: “A new Parliament, a new Government – what kind of changes can we expect in Portugal?”

Closing remarks by Elmar Brok MEP, Foreign Affairs Coordinator of the European People’s Party (EPP)

Saturday, 25 June

“The „Arab Spring“: Causes, Consequences and Implications for the Region and Europe”

9.00 am Opening remarks by Thomas Bernd Stehling
9.15 pm First Session: “The Causes, Participants and Instruments of the Protests”

Chair: Klaus-Dieter Frankenberger, Foreign Editor, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurt

Introduction: Dr. Hamed Abdel-Samad, Author, Berlin/Kairo

Panel:

• Prof. Haizam Amirah-Fernandez, Senior Analyst, Mediterranean and the Arab World, Real Instituto Elcano, Madrid
• Dr. Andreas Jacobs, Head of the Office for Egypt, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Kairo

Followed by Open Forum

11.15 am Second Session: “The Prospects for Democracy in Egypt and Tunesia”

Introduction: Prof. Ahmed Driss, President, Centre for Mediterranean and International Studies, Tunis

Panel:

• David Gardner, International Editor, Financial Times, London
• Jorge Moragas MP, Coordinator of the Presidency and International Relations of the Partido Popular, Madrid
• Thomas Schiller, Head of the Regional Programme for the Maghreb, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Rabat

Followed by Open Forum

1.00 pm Lunch

3.00 pm Third session: “What can, what should the European Union do?”

Chair: Andreu Bassols, Senior Advisor to the Secretary General of the Union for the Mediterranean, Barcelona

Introduction: Alistair Burt MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, London

Panel:

• Ana Palacio, fmr. Spanish Foreign Minister, Madrid
• Dr. Andreas Schockenhoff MP, Deputy Leader of the CDU/CSU-Parliamentary Group, Berlin
• Klaus Welle, Secretary General, European Parliament, Brussels

Followed by Open Forum

5.00 pm Trip to Sintra
Visiting the ancient town of Sintra

8.00 pm Reception and dinner

Followed by return to Lisbon

Sunday, 26 June

9.30 am Fourth Session: “The Changing Mediterranean Security Agenda”

Chair: Robin Niblett, Director, Chatham House, London

Introduction: Dr. Simon Serfaty, Zbigniew Brzezinski Chair in Global Security and Geostrategy, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington

Panel:

• Jürgen Hardt MP, Member of the Defence Committee, Berlin
• Gustavo de Arístegui MP, Spokesman of the PP in the Foreign Affairs Committee, Madrid
• Prof. Carlo Masala, Professor for International Politics, Bundeswehr University, Munich

Followed by Open Forum

11.15 am Fifth Session: “The Impact on Energy Security”

Introduction: Prof. Friedbert Pflüger, Professor at the Department of War Studies, King’s College, London
Panel:

• James Elles MEP, Brussels/London
• Dr. Joachim Pfeiffer MP, Spokesman on Economic Affairs, CDU/CSU-Parliamentary Group, Berlin

Followed by Open Forum