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Changing landscape in Transatlantic relations

New EU member states and candidate countries between Brussels and Washington

Conference programme

23 September 2005

8:30 – 9:00Registration

9:00Welcome address: Cyril Svoboda*, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic

David Král, director, EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy

Stefan Gehrold, director, Konrad Adenauer Foundation Prague

9:30 – 10:30Panel I: The role of the new member states in EU foreign policy: in which direction will the new MS pull?

Speakers:

Richard Whitman – Head of the European Programme, Chatham House, London

Piotr Zalewski – Center for International Relations, Warsaw

Vladimír Bilčík – Slovak Foreign Policy Association, Bratislava

Janusz Bugajski – Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington

Chair: David Král*, EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy

10:30 – 11:00Discussion

11:00 – 11:30Coffee break

11:30 -12:30Panel II: Future format of Transatlantic security – more Europe, less NATO?

Speakers:

Ulrike Guérot – Senior Transatlantic Fellow, GMF Berlin

Radek Khol – Institute of International Relations, Prague

Andris Spruds – Latvian Institute for International Affairs, Riga

Chair: Lukáš Pachta*, EUROPEUM

12:30 – 13:00Discussion

13:00 – 14:00Buffet lunch

14:00 – 14:30Keynote speech:

Robert Kagan – Carnegie Endowment Senior Associate and GMF Transatlantic Fellow

14:30 – 15:00Discussion

15:00 – 15:30Coffee break

15:30 – 16:30Panel III: The role of the EU in a wider world: complementary or competing with the United States?

Speakers:

John Glenn – Foreign Policy Director, GMF Washington

Peter Nitschke – Vechta University

Henrik Hololei – European Commission, Head of Cabinet of Vice-President Siim Kaalas

Tomas Valášek – Center for Defence Information, Brussels

Chair: Stefan Gehrold, Director, Konrad Adenauer Foundation Prague

16:30 – 17:00Discussion

17:00 – 18:00Concluding remarks and a chalice of wine

• speakers to be confirmed