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Democratization in EU External Policies: Objective or Side-effect?

International Conference

Senate of the Parliament, Prague, Czech Republic

September 22-23, 2006

TENTATIVE PROGRAMME

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21

19:00 - 20:30 Welcome Reception (Venue: Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

Greetings:

Tomáš Pojar, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs

Antonín Berdych, President, Association for International Affairs

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22

08:30 - 09:30 Registration (Venue: Czech Senate)

09:00 - 09:45 Welcome Remarks

Edvard Outrata, Vice-President of the Senate

Petr Mareš, Persident of the Conference, Association for _Intl. Affairs

Stefan Gehrold, Director, Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation Prague

Representatives of Partners

10:15 - 11:15 Panel I – Democratisation as the Highest Policy Imperative?

(What democracy? / Elections are sufficient? / Multiple paradigms? / Democracy in defence / Any other way beside democracy?)

Speakers:

Annegret Bendiek, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Germany

Erhard Busek, Council of the European Union, Austria

Jana Hybášková, European Parliament, Czech Republic

Anne-Marie Le Gloannec, CERI, France (tbc)

Siarhej Mackevich, Assembly of Belarussian Prodemocratic NGOs

Chair:Petr Mareš, Former Dep. Prime Minister, AMO Advisory Board

10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break

11:15 - 12:15 Discussion on Panel I

12:15 - 12:45 Keynote Speech / Speaker: Lord Dahrendorf

Introduction:Petr Pithart, First Vice-President of the Senate

12:45 - 13:45 Luncheon

13:45 - 15:45 Panel II – Democracy Promotion in Practice: Methods, Tools and Policies

(Finding the means / Modus operandi / Allocating resources)

Speakers:

Ayman Abdel Nour, All For Syria Magazine, Syria

Anette Jünemann, Helmut Schmidt Universität Hamburg, Deutschland

Petr Hladík, Policy Unit, Council of the European Union, Czech Republic

Elisabeth Johansson-Nogués, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain

Marianne Kneuer, Erfurt University, Germany

István Szent-Iványi, European Parliament, Hungary

Chair:Rádek Špicar, Former Deputy Vice-Prime Minister for Economic Affairs

15:45 - 16:15 Coffee break

16:15 - 18:15 Panel III – Unfinished Work in Eastern Europe & Caucasus: Beyond Past Achievements

(Conditionality required? / Partners /Trade / Vis-à-vis Russia / NATO and other actors)

Speakers:

Nataliya Belitser, Pylyp Orlyk Institute for Democracy, Ukraine

Peter Fischer-Bollin, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Germany

Alena Makouskaja, Homeland Association, Belarus

Hugues Mingarelli, Director, European Commission

Henry Plater-Zyberk, Defence Academy of the United Kingdom

Jacek Protasiewicz, MEmber of European Parliament, Poland

Chair:Stefan Gehrold, Director, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Prague

20:30 - 22:00 Dinner (Venue: Hotel President, Vltava Riverside)

Dinner speech: H.E. Giorgi Baramidze, State Minister on European and Euro-Atlantic Integration, Georgia

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23

09:00 - 11:00 Panel IV – Dealing with the “Arab Exception”: In Need of Patience or Insistence?

(An exception? / European motivation / Peace process

repercussions / Proving sincerity / “Islamist democracy”?)

Speakers:

Khairi Abaza, Foundation for Defense of Democracies, USA Egypt

Laith Kubba, National Endowment for Democracy, USA

Mohsen Marzouk, Freedom House, Tunisia

Radwan Masmoudi, Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy, USA

Eberhard Rhein, European Policy Centre, Belgium

Chair:Jan Šnaidauf, Chairman of the Board, AMO Research Centre

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 - 13:30 Panel V – Democratization Now: Agenda for Europe

(Winds of change? / Cleaning Europe’s face / Empowering the Union / Involving Member States / Reaching out)

Speakers:

Iris Kempe, Center for Applied Policy Research, Germany

Markus Meckel, German Bundestag, Germany

Jacques Rupnik, CERI, France

Marc Schade-Poulsen, Euro-Med Human Rights Network, Denmark

Rutger Wissels, European Commission, EU

Chair:__air:__r:____Jiří Schneider, Prague Security Studies Institute

13:20 - 14:00 Closing Remarks

15:00 - 16:00 Luncheon (Venue: U Labuti, Close to Prague Castle)

18:00 Cultural Programme (optional)