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Strengthening Political Integrity within the Center-Right Political Parties in Central and Eastern Europe

Conference – Bucharest, Romania - December 3-5, 2010

Parliament bulding – “Human rights” Hall

Friday, 3 December 2010

Participants arrive (Pick up from the airport with hotel buses) - Welcome dinner – 20.30 Marriott Hotel

Saturday, 4 December 2010

08.00Breakfast – Marriott Hotel

08:40Meeting in the hotel lobby – Walk to Parliament building (5-10 min.) – A1 Gate (Senate)

09:00Welcoming remarks

JAN SUROTCHAK, Resident Director, Europe, International Republican Institute

HOLGER DIX, Director, Konrad Adenauer Foundation Romania

VALERIU STOICA, President, Institute for Popular Studies

TOMI HUHTANEN, Director, Center for European Studies

JAN SCHINKELSHOEK, Expert, Eduardo Frei Foundation

09:30Risks of corruption within political parties

TOMI HUHTANEN, Director, Center for European Studies

DRAGOS PAUL ALIGICA, Senior Research Fellow, Mercatus Center, George Mason University - USA; Center for Analysis and Institutional Development - Romania

GYÖRGY TIBORFI, Cabinet Secretary, Foreign Affairs Cabinet - EU Affairs Workgrup, FIDESZ – Hungary

Livia Saplacan, Spokeswoman, National Anticorruption Directorate – Romania

10:45Coffee Break

11:00Difficulties in building integrity in post-communist Europe parties

SEVER VOINESCU, MP, Institute for Popular Studies - Romania

SENAD SEPIC, Deputy Minister of Civil Affairs, Party of the Democratic Action (SDA) - Bosnia and Herzegovina

AIMAR ALTOSAAR, Director of Jaan Tonisson Institute – Pro Patria and Res Publica Union, Estonia

DONATAS PILINKUS, Assoc. prof. dr., Liberal Movement - Lithuania

12:30Lunch – Parliament building – “Salonul Brancovenesc” hall

14:00Human resources recruitment, training and promotion mechanisms within the center-right political parties

DAN TAPALAGA, Journalist, Hotnews.ro - Romania

JAROSLAV POLACEK, Tradition - Responsibility - Prosperity (TOP 09) - Czech Republic

SULFINA BARBU, MP, Vice-president of the Democrat Liberal Party - Romania

15:30Coffee Break

16:00Mechanism and solutions for ensuring stability within the center-right parties in CEE

VALERIU STOICA, Vice-president of the Democrat Liberal Party - Romania

DENITSA IVANOVA, Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria (GERB) - Bulgaria

HOLGER DIX, Director, Konrad Adenauer Foundation Romania - Germany

17:00Meeting adjourns

18.40Meeting in the hotel lobby – Departure with hotel buses to restaurant

19:00Dinner – “Hanul Berarilor” restaurant (Str. Poenaru Bordea nr.2, Sector 5, Bucuresti)

Sunday, 5 December 2010

08.00Breakfast – Marriott Hotel

09:10Meeting in the hotel lobby – Walk to Parliament building (5-10 min.) – A1 Gate (Senate)

9:30Transfer of best practices on ethics and integrity in center-right parties

JAIME GARCÍA-LEGAZ, Secretary General, Foundation for Analysis and Social Studies – Spain

JAN SCHINKELSHOEK, Eduardo Frei Foundation - Netherlands

CRISTIAN GHINEA, Director, Romanian Center for European Policies – Romania

10.45Coffee break

11:00 State capture vs. transparency and accountability in political parties financing

MONICA MACOVEI, Member of the European Parliament – EPP Group, Democrat Liberal Party - Romania

AGNE BILOTAITE, MP, Chairwoman of the Parliamentary Group For Citizens’ Efforts to Create Lithuania Free of Corruption, Homeland Union – Lithuania

ALEKSEJS LOSKUTOVS, MP, Former Head of Latvia's Anti-corruption Bureau (KNAB) – Society for Other Politics - Latvia

ALEKSANDAR RADONJIĆ, Chief of G17Plus Parliamentary Group in Assembly of AP of Vojvodina, G17 Plus / Party of Regions - Serbia

12:45Press conference / Lunch

14:00Future steps and conference’s final resolution

16:00Meeting adjourns

(Participants depart)

19:00Dinner – “Sangria” restaurant (Caderea Bastiliei nr. 78, Bucuresti)

Monday, 6 December 2010

(Participants depart)