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PROGRAMME

Thursday, 26.5.2005

Arrival of participants and accommodation

20.00 Dinner

Friday, 27.5.2005

09.00 – 09.10 Opening of the Seminar

Welcoming by Klaus Brambach – Counselor and Director of the Press and Information Department at the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Sofia

09.10 – 09.20Presentation of the programme, organisers, participants and main speakers

Ognian Zlatev – Director of Media Development Center - Sofia

09.20 – 09.30Welcoming by Nedyalko Nedelchev – Honorary consul of the Federal Republic of Germany and France in Varna

09.30 – 10.00 First Session: Bulgaria’s Perspective in the EU

Speaker: Krassimir Kostov – Diplomatic Adviser to the Deputy Prime Minister of Bulgaria and founding member of the European Movement in Bulgaria

10.00 – 10.30 Second Session: Worth and value of journalism in a free society

Speaker: Ralf Jaksch – Representative of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation - Sofia

10.30 - 11.00 Third Session: Bulgaria's economic opportunities in the EU

Speaker: Wolfgang Brett – Head of Division Task Force for Foreign Trade and Payments – Federal Foreign Office, Berlin

11.00 – 11.30 Discussion

11.30 – 11.45 Coffee Break

11.45 – 12.45 Fourth Session: EU – Reflections and Challenges after the Signing of the Accession Treaty for Bulgaria

Speaker: Krasimir Kostov

12.45 – 13.15Discussion

13.15 – 14.30Lunch

14.30 – 15.00Fifth Session: The economic effects for the New Member States after the Expansion of the EU on 01.05.04. – Positive and Negative examples for Bulgaria

Speaker: Reinhold Vetter, Chief correspondent for Eastern Europe of “Handelsblatt”, Warsaw

15.00 – 16.00 Sixth Session: 1 Year after the Biggest Expansion of the EU – Changes and Challenges for the New Member States

Speaker: Ilin Stanev, International Politics Editor, Capital Weekly

16.00 – 16.15Coffee Break

16.15 – 16.45Seventh Session: From Signing the Accession Treaty to Real Membership in the EU – What’s Next

Speakers: Krassimir Kostov and Ilin Stanev

16.45 – 17.30 Discussion

20.00 Buffet – Dinner, hosted by:

Klaus Brambach – Director of the Press and Information Department at the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Sofia

Saturday, 28.5.2005

09.00 – 09.30Eight Session: Bulgaria and the internal EU market after the Accession – How can the national economy maintain its position

Speaker: Reinhold Vetter

09.30 – 10.00Discussion

10.00 – 10.30Ninth Session: Investments of German companies in Bulgaria

Speaker: Wolfgang Brett

10.30 – 11.00Discussion

11.00 – 11.15Coffee Break

11.15 – 14.30Practical Assignments of participants - conducting interviews and preparation of articles

14.30 – 16.00 Lunch

16.00 – 17.00Tenth Session: Debrief and Discussion on the results of the practical assignments

17.00 – 17.30Closing and evaluation of the seminar

Krassimir Kostov, Ilin Stanev, Klaus Brambach

20.00 Dinner

Sunday, 29.5.2005

Breakfast

Departure of participants