Details

Sunday, 18 March 2018

Arrival of participants

Monday, 19 March 2018

09:00

Welcoming Remarks and Introduction

Dr. Canan Atilgan, Director, KAS Regional Program South Mediterranean

Dr. Adel Abdel Ghafar, Fellow, Brookings Doha Center

09:30

Panel 1: Standing on Shaky Ground in Libya

Moderated by Dr. Canan Atilgan

Presentation:

Dr. Arturo Varvelli, Co-Head of MENA Centre, ISPI

Discussants:

Mary Fitzgerald, Independent Researcher

Tarek Megerisi, Visiting Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations

11:00

Coffee break

11:30

Panel 2: EU-Morocco Relations: Supporting a Bulwark of Stability?

Moderated by Francesca Fabbri, Junior Policy Analyst, European Policy Centre

Presentation

Intissar Fakir, Editor in Chief of Sada, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Discussants

Aboubakr Jamaï, Dean of the School of Business and International Relations at IAU College in Aix En Provence

Florence Liou, Deputy-Head of Middle East and North Africa Division, European External Action Service (EEAS)

13:00

Lunch

15:00

Panel 3: Tunisia. Can Europe Claim Success?

Moderated by Dr. Canan Atilgan

Presentation

Youssef Cherif, Deputy Director, Columbia Global Center Tunis

Discussants

Hedi Larbi, Associate at the Belfer Center's Middle East Initiative and Former Tunisian Minister of Economic Infrastructure and Sustainable Development

Camelia Oaida, European Parliament, Euromed and Middle East Unit, Delegation for Relations with Maghreb countries (DMAG)

16:30

Panel 4: Europe’s Fear of an Algerian Fallout

Moderated by Dr. Adel Abdel Ghafar

Presentation

Dr. Dalia Ghanem-Yazbeck, Resident Scholar, Carnegie Middle East Center

Discussants

Dr. Robert P. Parks, Director, Centre d’Etudes Maghrebines en Algerie (CEMA)

Kirsten Jongberg, MENA Region Policy Analyst, Policy Department for External Relations, European Parliament

18:45

Aperitif with Heiner Enterich, Managing Director of Villa La Collina

Tuesday, 20 March 2018

09:00

Panel 5: EU-Egypt Relations: Balancing Economic, Political and Security Interests

Moderated by Kirsten Jongberg, MENA Region Policy Analyst, Policy Department for External Relations, European Parliament

Presentation

Dr. Adel Abdel Ghafar, Fellow, Brookings Doha Center

Discussants

Dr. Gennaro Gervasio, Senior Lecturer, Roma Tre University

Dr. Silvia Colombo, Senior Fellow and Head of MENA Program, International Affairs Institute, Rome

10:30

Coffee break

11:00

Roundtable: Unifying of Diversifying? EU’s Policy Approach towards North Africa

Moderated by Olaf Wientzek, Coordinator European Policy, KAS Berlin

12:30

Closing Remarks