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9.15 a.m. Registration of participants

10.00 a.m Welcome Speech:

Maria Romana De Gasperi, Honorary President of the De Gasperi Foundation

10.30 a.m. Opening Remarks:

Mikuláš Dzurinda, President of the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies

10.50 a.m. Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, Former President of the French Republic and member of the Constitutional Council of France

11.10 a.m. Wolfgang Schüssel, Former Chancellor of Austria and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung

11.30 a.m. Steven Van Hecke, Professor in Comparative and EU Politics, Catholic University of Louvain

11.50 p.m.Ben Knapen, Former Minister for European Affairs and International Cooperation and Member of the Senate of the Netherlands

12.10 p.m. Viviane Reding, Member of the European Parliament

10.45 a.m. Angelino Alfano, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and President of the De Gasperi Foundation

Moderator:

Vincenzo Grassi, Secretary General of the European University Institute