European Neighbours - Bilateral Region

Bulgarian-Serbian Relations and their Regional and

European Implications

Date: 16 May 2022, 11.00–13.00h

Location:  Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Belgrade (Makedonska 2)

and via ZOOM

Language: Serbian-English, simultaneous translation

Zoom link on request

PROGRAM

11.00     Welcoming address

Dragan ĐUKANOVIĆ, president, Center for Foreign Policy, Belgrade

Norbert BECKMANN-DIERKES, director, Konrad Adenauer Foundation

Serbia and Montenegro

Introduction

H.E. Petko DOYKOV, ambassador of the Republic of Bulgaria in Serbia

Dorothea GIESELMANN, deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of the

Federal Republic of Germany to Serbia

Thorsten GEIßLER, director, Konrad Adenauer Foundation Bulgaria

11.30     Past and Future:

Current Opportunities and Challenges in Serbian-Bulgarian Relations

Key points:

National and ethnic groups and minorities as bridge builders:

institutional, political, and cultural history and future

EU Integration and the Bulgarian Experience

The state of the economy and infrastructure: possibilities of

cooperation and implementation

Policy and Diplomacy: Positions and Cooperation

Panelists

Vesna MARKOVIĆ, vice president of the Parliamentarian Committee

on Foreign Affairs, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia,

Serbian Progressive Party, Belgrade

Biser BANCHEV, researcher, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences -

The Institute of Balkan Studies – Contemporary Balkans, Sofia

Nikolay KRSTEV, former Head of the Bulgaria Public Radio

in Belgrade and Moscow, analyst of various Bulgarian and

regional media on the Western Balkans, Sofia

Srećko ĐUKIĆ, former Ambassador of the Republic of

Yugoslavia to Bulgaria, Belgrade

Ivo VISKOVIĆ, professor, Faculty of Political Sciences, former

Ambassador of the Republic Serbia to the Federal

Republic of Germany, Belgrade

Moderator

Stefan BOŠKOVIĆ, program assistant, Center for Foreign Policy,

Belgrade,

researcher, Faculty of Political Sciences, Belgrade

13.00     Closing remarks