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Visegrad Elections: Domestic Impact and European Consequences

International conference

September 27, 2006

Conference venue: Hotel Tatra, Nám. 1. mája 5, Bratislava

PROGRAM

Registration of the participants

8.30 – 9.00

Introductory Remarks:

Ambassador Kristóf Forrai, Executive Director, International Visegrad Fund, Bratislava

Srefan Gehrold, Director, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Bratislava

9.00 – 9.15

PART ONE

Domestic Politics

9.15 – 11.00

Moderator:

Martin Bútora, Honorary President, Institute for Public Affairs, Bratislava

Participants:

Jacek Kucharczyk, Institute of Public Affairs, Warsaw

Tamás Pál, Institute of Sociology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest

Ivan Gabal, Analysis & Consulting, Prague

Soňa Szomolányi, Dpt. of Political Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava

Discussant:

Grigorij Mesežnikov, President, Institute for Public Affairs, Bratislava

Discussion

Coffee Break

11.00 – 11.30

PART TWO

Populism in “Old” and “New” Europe: Trends, Implications, Responses

11.30 – 13.00

Moderator:

Oľga Gyárfášová, Program Director, Institute for Public Affairs, Bratislava

Participants:

Kai-Olaf Lang, Stiftung Politik und Wissenschaft, Deutsches Institut für Internationale Politik und Sicherheit, Berlin

Jacques Rupnik, CERI, Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, Paris

Kevin Krause, Wayne State University, Detroit

Discussant:

Peter Učeň, International Republican Institute, Bratislava

Discussion

Lunch

13.00 – 14. 00

PART THREE

14.00 – 15.30

Visegrad Group, EU Enlargement and the EU Neighborhood Policy after the Visegrad Elections

Moderator:

Pavol Demeš, Director, German Marshall Fund of the US for Central and Eastern Europe

Participants:

Karel Schwarzenberg, Member of the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic, Prague

Ambassador Karel Kovanda, European Commission, Brussels

Gabor Fodor, Member of the Parliament of Hungary, Alliance of Free Democrats (SZDSZ) TBC

Patrycja Bukalska, Centre for Eastern Studies, Warsaw TBC

Tomáš Strážay, Research Center of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association, Bratislava

Discussants:

Milan Nič, Program Director, Institute for Civic Diplomacy, Pontis Foundation, Bratislava

Coffee Break

15.30 – 16.00

PART FOUR

Visegrad Elections and the EU in Euro-Atlantic Context: Economic and Security Performance

16.00 – 17.30

Moderator: Ingrid Brocková, Country Manager, World Bank, Bratislava

Participants:

Edward Lucas, Central and East European Correspondent of the Economist

Robin Shepherd, Senior Transatlantic Fellow, German Marshal Fund

Ján Oravec, President, F.A. Hayek Foundation, Bratislava

Discussants:

Ivan Mikloš, Member of the Parliament, former Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Slovakia,

Discussion

Conclusions

18.00