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Programme

11 April 2008

Arrival at Wilton Park

Steyning

West Sussex BN44 3DZ

(www.wiltonpark.org.uk)

19.00 Reception and Drinks

19.30Welcome Dinner

12 April 2008

09.30Opening remarks by Thomas Bernd Stehling, Director

Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung London

09.45The European Agenda 2008

Introduction: Peter Altmaier MP, Parliamentary State Secretary, Germany

Anna Kingberg Batra MP, Chaiman Committee on EU-Affairs, Sweden

Chair: Noelle Lenoir, Former Europe Minister, France

11.00Coffee Break

11.15Session continues

12.30Lunch

14.30EU and Russia after the Presidential Elections

Introduction: Michael Gahler MEP, Vice Chairman Foreign Affairs Committee in the European Parliament

Dr.Fraser Cameron, Director, EU-Russia Center, Brussels

Chair: Dr.Pekka Sutela, Bank of Finland

16.15 Coffee Break

16.30 The Future of NATO and a Closer European Defense Cooperation

Introduction: Ambassador Prof.Dr.Reinhard Bettzuege, Brussels

Dr. Ulrich Schlie, Director Planning Staff, Federal Ministry of Defence, Germany

Chair: Andreas Kaju, Ministry of Defence, Estonia

18.00End of session

19.00 Dinner

20.30After Dinner Talk with Enda Kenny MP, Leader of Fine Gael

“Ireland before the EU-Referendum”

Chair:Thomas Bernd Stehling

13 April 2008

09.00 US Foreign Policy after George W. Bush

Introduction: Eckart von Klaeden MdB, Chairman of the Committee on

Foreign Affairs of the CDU/CSU-Parliamentary Group

Chair: Alan Dukes, Former Leader of Fine Gael

10.45Coffee Break

11.00 The Challenges of Effective Multilateralism

Introduction:Dr.Günter Krings MP, Germany

Prof.Dr.Stephen Haseler, Metropolitan University, London

Chair: Dr.Lisbeth Aggestam, Swedish Institute of International Affairs

13.00 Lunch

Departure of participants