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Preliminary Programme

“50 Years Treaties of Rome and the Future of the Western Balkans”

Friday, April 13, 2007

Residence “Konak”, Sarajevo

8.30 H Registration of participants

9.00 H Opening of the conference:

50 Years Treaty of Rome

Dr. Christina Catherine Krause

Director of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation,

Office Sarajevo/Bosnia and Herzegovina

Prof. Dr. Franjo Topić

President

Paneuropean Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Osman Topcagic

Director

Directorate for European Integration of Bosnia and Herzegovina

9.30 H Table I: “Western Balkans from EU point of view“

Doris Pack

Member of European Parliament

Michael Brand

Member of German Parliament

Dimitris Kourkoulas (tbc)

Ambassador

Delegation of the European Commission to Bosnia and Herzegovina

Followed byDiscussion

11.00 H Coffee break

11.30 H Table II: “Regional Cooperation in the Western Balkans”

Osman Topcagic

Director

Directorate for European Integration of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Vladimir Drobnjak (tbc)

Ambassador

Chief Negotiator for Accession Negotiations with the European Union

Government of the Republic of Croatia

Gabriela Konevska Trajkovska

Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Macedonia

responsible for the European Integration Process

Prof. Gordana Djurovic

Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration

Government of the Republic of Montenegro

Vojkan Tomic

Chairman of the Committee for European Integration

Parliament of Serbia

Followed by Discussion

13.30 H Lunch

15.00 H Table III: “Civil Society engagement for EU integration“

Henrik Kröner

Secretary General

European Movement International

Vanja Gavran

General Secretary

Paneuropean Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Ksenija Milivojevic

General Secretary

European Movement Serbia

Mislav Jezic

Member of Presidency

International Paneuropean Union

Dane Taleski,

Researcher

Institute for Democracy "Societas Civilis" – Skopje, Macedonia

Followed byDiscussion

16.30 H Coffee break

17.00 H Resume