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Thinking beyond Bulgaria and Romania: Perspectives of further EU

enlargement

Views and debates in new EU member states and candidate countries

Date: 6 December 2006

Venue:

Hotel Modrá růže

Rytířská 16

CZ-11000 Prague 1

Please confirm your participation

by December 1st, 2006 the latest at

konference@europeum.org, Tel: +420 221 610 207

English/Czech Interpretation Available

Conference media partner is EurActiv.cz

Conference Programme

9.00 – 9.30 Registration

9.30 – 9.40 Introductory remarks:

David Král, Director, EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy

Pavlína Bartoňová, Project-Manager, Prague representation of

Konrad Adenauer Foundation

9:40 – 10:20 Panel I:

Czech views, priorities and stakes in further EU enlargement

Chair: Pavlína Bartoňová, Prague representation of Konrad Adenauer

Foundation

Speakers:

Adam Černý, Journalist, Hospodářské noviny

David Stulík, Senior Program officer, People in Need Foundation

Tomáš Szunyog*, Director, South-East and East European

Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic

10:20 – 10:50 Discussion

10:50 – 11:10 Coffee break

11:10 – 12:20 Panel II:

The EU enlargement debates in new member states

and candidate countries

Chair: David Král, EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy

Speakers:

Piotr Kaźmierkiewicz, Research Fellow, Institute of Public Affairs,

Warsaw

Dace Akule, Head of EU programme, PROVIDUS Centre for Public

Policy, Riga

Olga Shumylo, Head of EU programme, International Center for Policy

Studies, Kiev

Ivan Bimbilovski, Senior Analyst, Center for Research and Policy

Making, Skopje

12:20 – 13:00 Discussion

13:00 – 13:30 Keynote speech by Alexander Vondra, Minister of Foreign Affairs of

the Czech Republic

13:30 – 13:50 Questions and answers, discussion

13:50 – 14:30 Buffet lunch

• to be confirmed