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Democratization in EU External Policies: Objective or Side-effect?
International Conference
Senate of the Parliament, Prague, Czech Republic
September 22-23, 2006
TENTATIVE PROGRAMME
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21
19:00 - 20:30 Welcome Reception (Venue: Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
Greetings:
Tomáš Pojar, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
Antonín Berdych, President, Association for International Affairs
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22
08:30 - 09:30 Registration (Venue: Czech Senate)
09:00 - 09:45 Welcome Remarks
Edvard Outrata, Vice-President of the Senate
Petr Mareš, Persident of the Conference, Association for _Intl. Affairs
Stefan Gehrold, Director, Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation Prague
Representatives of Partners
10:15 - 11:15 Panel I – Democratisation as the Highest Policy Imperative?
(What democracy? / Elections are sufficient? / Multiple paradigms? / Democracy in defence / Any other way beside democracy?)
Speakers:
Annegret Bendiek, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Germany
Erhard Busek, Council of the European Union, Austria
Jana Hybášková, European Parliament, Czech Republic
Anne-Marie Le Gloannec, CERI, France (tbc)
Siarhej Mackevich, Assembly of Belarussian Prodemocratic NGOs
Chair:Petr Mareš, Former Dep. Prime Minister, AMO Advisory Board
10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 - 12:15 Discussion on Panel I
12:15 - 12:45 Keynote Speech / Speaker: Lord Dahrendorf
Introduction:Petr Pithart, First Vice-President of the Senate
12:45 - 13:45 Luncheon
13:45 - 15:45 Panel II – Democracy Promotion in Practice: Methods, Tools and Policies
(Finding the means / Modus operandi / Allocating resources)
Speakers:
Ayman Abdel Nour, All For Syria Magazine, Syria
Anette Jünemann, Helmut Schmidt Universität Hamburg, Deutschland
Petr Hladík, Policy Unit, Council of the European Union, Czech Republic
Elisabeth Johansson-Nogués, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain
Marianne Kneuer, Erfurt University, Germany
István Szent-Iványi, European Parliament, Hungary
Chair:Rádek Špicar, Former Deputy Vice-Prime Minister for Economic Affairs
15:45 - 16:15 Coffee break
16:15 - 18:15 Panel III – Unfinished Work in Eastern Europe & Caucasus: Beyond Past Achievements
(Conditionality required? / Partners /Trade / Vis-à-vis Russia / NATO and other actors)
Speakers:
Nataliya Belitser, Pylyp Orlyk Institute for Democracy, Ukraine
Peter Fischer-Bollin, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Germany
Alena Makouskaja, Homeland Association, Belarus
Hugues Mingarelli, Director, European Commission
Henry Plater-Zyberk, Defence Academy of the United Kingdom
Jacek Protasiewicz, MEmber of European Parliament, Poland
Chair:Stefan Gehrold, Director, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Prague
20:30 - 22:00 Dinner (Venue: Hotel President, Vltava Riverside)
Dinner speech: H.E. Giorgi Baramidze, State Minister on European and Euro-Atlantic Integration, Georgia
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23
09:00 - 11:00 Panel IV – Dealing with the “Arab Exception”: In Need of Patience or Insistence?
(An exception? / European motivation / Peace process
repercussions / Proving sincerity / “Islamist democracy”?)
Speakers:
Khairi Abaza, Foundation for Defense of Democracies, USA Egypt
Laith Kubba, National Endowment for Democracy, USA
Mohsen Marzouk, Freedom House, Tunisia
Radwan Masmoudi, Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy, USA
Eberhard Rhein, European Policy Centre, Belgium
Chair:Jan Šnaidauf, Chairman of the Board, AMO Research Centre
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 - 13:30 Panel V – Democratization Now: Agenda for Europe
(Winds of change? / Cleaning Europe’s face / Empowering the Union / Involving Member States / Reaching out)
Speakers:
Iris Kempe, Center for Applied Policy Research, Germany
Markus Meckel, German Bundestag, Germany
Jacques Rupnik, CERI, FranceMarc Schade-Poulsen, Euro-Med Human Rights Network, DenmarkRutger Wissels, European Commission, EUChair:__air:__r:____Jiří Schneider, Prague Security Studies Institute
13:20 - 14:00 Closing Remarks
15:00 - 16:00 Luncheon (Venue: U Labuti, Close to Prague Castle)
18:00 Cultural Programme (optional)