Details

This event will be hosted at Palácio do Itamaraty in Rio de Janeiro and will consist of panels with distinguished experts from Brazil, North America and Europe, which will discuss about the European integration and enlargement in the context of the changing international environment, economic crisis and political unfolds.

Programme:

Registration: 9h to 9h30

Welcome: 9h30 to 10h

Speakers:

Felix Dane, Representative of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Brazil

Ana Paula Zacarias, Head of the European Union Delegation in Brazil

Elena Lazarou, Head of the Center for International Relations, CPDOC, Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV)

Opening talk:10:00 to 10:30 The EU, Russia and Ukraine: untangling the triangle

Speakers:

Taras Kuzio, Center for Political and Regional Studies, University of Alberta

First Panel:10h to 12h30 Leaving Europe¡¦s waiting room: 10th Anniversary of the Eastern Enlargement

Speakers:

Jolyon Howorth, The Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, Yale University

Cynthia Roberts, School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), University of Columbia (TBC)

Estevao Rezende Martins, Department of History, University of Brasilia (UnB)

Chair:

Andrzej Maria Braiter, Ambassador of Poland to Brazil (TBC)

Lunch (hosted): 12h30 to 14h

Second Panel:14h to 16h The State of the European Union¡¨: EU crisis, parliament elections, the new commission, banking union

Speakers:

Vivien Schmidt, Director of the Center for the Study of Europe, Boston University

Mario Telo, Department of Political Science, LUISS and Free University of Brussels

Chair:

Dimitri Alexandrakis, Ambassador of Greece to Brazil

Coffee-Break:16h to 16h30

Third Panel:16h30 to 18h Brazil, Latin America and the EU in the new global agendas

Speakers:

Felix Pena, Professor of International Commercial Relations, Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero (UNTREF) (TBC)

Richard Whitman Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Kent

Miriam Saraiva, Department of International Relations, State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ)

Chair:

Felix Dane, Representative of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Brazil

Keynote Speeches:18h to 18h30 In Search of a Strategy for the EU-Brazil Strategic Partnership!!

Speakers:

Ana Paula Zacarias, Head of the EU Delegation to Brazil, EU

Oswaldo Biato, Director of the Europe Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Brazil (TBC)

Final Remarks:18h30

Speakers:

Felix Dane, Representative of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Brazil

Ana Paula Zacarias, Head of the European Union Delegation in Brazil

Elena Lazarou, Head of the Centre for International Relations, CPDOC, Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV)

Europe Day Reception (hosted by the European Union Delegation in Brazil)

Please register by writting a message to the following e-mail: ri@fgv.br. There is no registration fee. Those interested in receiving a certificate of participation should write to mentioned e-mail after attending the conference - please do not forget to confirm your attendace in the reception desk.

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