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12 p.m.

Welcome

12.30 p.m.

Introduction

Dr Peter R. Weilemann, Director of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, European Office

Johann-Adolf Cohausz, Minister Counsellor, German Federal Foreign Office

1.00 p.m.

Ideas and proposals for a better division of labour between the Council of Europe and the European Union

Input statements

View of Mr Jean-Claude Juncker’s Office Victor Weitzel, Assistant to the Prime Minister for his report on the relations between the Council of Europe and the European Union

View of the Commission Gilbert Dubois, Head of Unit: OSCE and Council of Europe

View of the Council of Europe Jan Kleijssen, Director Interparliamentary and Institutional Relations, Special Adviser to the President, Secretariat of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe

2.30 p.m.

Discussion and Brainstorming: “Possibilities for complementarity and synergy”

3.45 p.m.

Wrap-up Dr Peter R. Weilemann, Director of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, European Office