Wie verändern die neuen EU-Mitglieder die transatlantischen Beziehungen? - Kancelář Česko
Odborná konference
Podrobnosti
Changing landscape in Transatlantic relations
New EU member states and candidate countries between Brussels and Washington
Conference programme
23 September 2005
8:30 – 9:00Registration
9:00Welcome address: Cyril Svoboda*, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic
David Král, director, EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy
Stefan Gehrold, director, Konrad Adenauer Foundation Prague
9:30 – 10:30Panel I: The role of the new member states in EU foreign policy: in which direction will the new MS pull?
Speakers:
Richard Whitman – Head of the European Programme, Chatham House, London
Piotr Zalewski – Center for International Relations, Warsaw
Vladimír Bilčík – Slovak Foreign Policy Association, Bratislava
Janusz Bugajski – Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington
Chair: David Král*, EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy
10:30 – 11:00Discussion
11:00 – 11:30Coffee break
11:30 -12:30Panel II: Future format of Transatlantic security – more Europe, less NATO?
Speakers:
Ulrike Guérot – Senior Transatlantic Fellow, GMF Berlin
Radek Khol – Institute of International Relations, Prague
Andris Spruds – Latvian Institute for International Affairs, Riga
Chair: Lukáš Pachta*, EUROPEUM
12:30 – 13:00Discussion
13:00 – 14:00Buffet lunch
14:00 – 14:30Keynote speech:
Robert Kagan – Carnegie Endowment Senior Associate and GMF Transatlantic Fellow
14:30 – 15:00Discussion
15:00 – 15:30Coffee break
15:30 – 16:30Panel III: The role of the EU in a wider world: complementary or competing with the United States?
Speakers:
John Glenn – Foreign Policy Director, GMF Washington
Peter Nitschke – Vechta University
Henrik Hololei – European Commission, Head of Cabinet of Vice-President Siim Kaalas
Tomas Valášek – Center for Defence Information, Brussels
Chair: Stefan Gehrold, Director, Konrad Adenauer Foundation Prague
16:30 – 17:00Discussion
17:00 – 18:00Concluding remarks and a chalice of wine
- speakers to be confirmed