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Friday, June 29th, 2007

11 am

Ecumenical religious service

(Peterskiche)

1 pm

The importance of freedom, liberty, justice, security, and solidarity:

Your opinion, please!

„Talking about freedom“

Politicians, musicians, football players, people like you and me...

share their ideas on video and in reality

2 pm

Opening address

Dr. Hermann Kues Member of the German Parliament (tbc); Parliamentary Secretary of State, Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth; Member of the executive board of the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation

(among others)

3.30 pm

3 Panel discussions

(parallel – participants choose one)

Panel I: „Freedom is more than just a word…“

Panelists:

• Robert Clemen Member of the State Parliament of Saxony, Leipzig, Co-Founder of the “Democratic Awakening”
• Jerald Joseph, Director of „Pusat Komas“, Malaysia
• Dr. Viktor Orbán, Vice-President of the European People’s Party, former Prime Minister of Hungary

Presentation: Katja Plate, International Cooperation of the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation

Panel II: „Freedom and Responsibility – Why Responsibility is fun…“

(Konrad- Adenauer- Foundation in Cooperation with the Christian Democrat Stu-dents/European

Democrat Students)

Panelists:

• Alexander Krauß, Member of the State Parliament of Saxony, Speaker for youth policy of the CDU group
• Washington Katema, Nationall Coordinator, Zimbabwe National Students Union
• Juan Carlos Mondragon, President, Acción Juvenil, JYouth Organization of PAN, Mexico
• Uladzimir Chervonenko, Vice Chairman of the United Stellvertretender Vorsitzender der Vereinigten Bürgerpartei Weißrusslands

Presentation: Ana Filipa Janine, Portugal, President European Democrat Students (EDS)

Panel III: „Europe offers liberty and chances“

(Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation in cooperation with JU Deutschlands)

Panelists:

• Christian Piwarz, Member of the State Parliament of Saxony, President of the JU Saxony & Lower Silesia
• Michael Kretschmer, Member of the German Bundestag, Secretary General of the CDU of Saxony
• N.N.
• Dr. Andreas Schwab MEP

Presentation: Thomas Schneider, chairman of the International Commission for Foreign, Security and European Politics of the Junge Union

8 pm

„The Right to Make Yourself Heard – Music and Freedom“

Discussions with musicians – In the beginning and between the gigs of the bands

Let’s celebrate freedom!

Saturday, June 30th, 2007:

9 am

How to shape and create Europe:

Workshops, Ideas, Tipps

1. Composition of a Declaration

   "Working for Europe in a spirit of responsibility and freedom"

   Simon Raiser and Björn Wakalla planpolitik

2. Ressource: Culture. The Art of Mobility.

   Ewa Strozczynska-Wille, manager of cultural affairs, editor of the newsletter MOE-Kultur, and Michael Kurzwelly, artist, author, founder of (among others) the German-Polish project "Slubfurt"

3. "Don't talk, Act! - creative methods for voluntary project work"

   Eric Wrasse and Dina Schreiber, Theodor-Heuss-Kolleg

11.30 am

„Freedom and Liberty as leitmotif of political action:

European Unification and German Unity”

Prof. Dr. Bernhard Vogel, Chairman of the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation and former State Prime Minister

Prof. Dr. Hans-Gert Pöttering, President of the European Parliament

Dr. Viktor Orbán, Vice-President of the European People’s Party, former Prime Minister of Hungary

Dr. Helmut Kohl, former Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany

Honorary Citizen of Europe

In conversation with Philipp Mißfelder, Member of the German Parliament, President of the Junge Union Deutschland

1.30 pm

„Liberty, Freedom, and Oppression“

Walking tour to the sites of the Peaceful Revolution together with important person-alities of 1989

2.30 pm

optional programs

• Visiting the State Office Administering the Stasi Files
• Exhibition „Stasi – Power and Banality“
• School Museum
• Discussions with Participants in the Peaceful Revolution
• Speech of and Discussion with the author and director of documentaries and other films, Freya Klier (tbc)