Brussels, 03/04/2002 (Agence Europe) - The following conferences and seminars on European issues will be held in April and May:
Europe: citoyenneté, société civile, Union politique - Paris, 4 April: Breakfast debate organised by Géostratégie, with MEPs Pervenche Berès and Philippe Herzog and the President of Mouvement européen-France, Anne-Marie Idrac. (Info: +33(1)49.88.11.94);
Safety assessment of cosmetics in the EU - Brussels, 8 - 13 April: Training courses organised by the Medicine and Pharmacy Faculties of the Free University of Brussels (Info: Tel: +32(2)477.45.85, Internet: safetycourse.vub.ac.be/);
Euro-Med relations - Paris, 11 April: Seminar with the Forum des citoyens de la Méditerranée, and Monique Prim, Jannis Sakellariou MEP, Morocco's former ambassador to the WTO, Nacer Benjelloum-Touimi, and Erwan Lanon (Info: +33(1)49.88.11.94);
The Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union - Paris, 11-12 April: Expert seminar organised by the Cicero Foundation as one of its "Big Debates" (Info: +33(1)43.80.18.21, Internet: http://www.cicerofoundation.org );
Lobbying and decision-making in Europe - Brussels, 16-17 April: Seminar organised by Hawksmere (Info: Claire Vipas +44(0)20.7881.1813, Internet: http://www.hawksmere.com );
The United Nations in the Twenty-first Century - Paris, 22 April: Conference organised by Institut français des relations internationales, with Edward Mortimer, Director of Communications and Head of Speech-writing Unit for the UN Secretary General (Info: Ifri, 25 rue de la Processsion, F - 75740 Paris Cedex 15 http://www.ifri.org );
L'Europe et la sécurité intérieure - Paris, 23 April: Ifri conference with Wenceslas de Logkowicz, Head of Unit at European Commission's DG Enlargement, to mark publication of his book with same title published by Documentation française (Info: see above);
La stratégie d'influence de l'Union européenne - Paris 24 April: Breakfast debate with Philippe Moreau Defarges, Councillor at the Quai d'Orsay, Laurent Cohen-Tanugi, Associate at solicitors' Cleary Gottlieb Steen and Hamilton, and Olivier Cattaneo, Associate Researcher at the Groupe de l'économie mondiale of the l'Institut d'études politiques de Paris, to mark publication of three Ifri notes by the three speakers on (respectively) "L'Union européenne, un empire démocratique?", "L'influence normative internationale de l'Union" and "Quelles ambitions pour la puissance commerciale de l'Union européenne?" (Info: see above);
Turkey, European and Eurasia - Paris, 29 April: Conference with Turkish foreign minister Ismaïl Cem (Info: see above);
EU Private International Law and EU Civil Procedure Law- Luxembourg, 25 and 26 April: Seminar organised by Luxembourg branch of European Institute of Public Administration for lawyers, officials and academics (Info: Stéphanie Boudot, Tel: +352/426.230.301, Internet: http://www.eipa.nl );
The Challenge of Change in EU Business Associations - Brussels, 7 May: conference organised for the European Commission by Ernst &Young. (Info: Tel: 32 (2) 774.96.10, Internet: http://www.ey.be/euroconference );
Creating eEurope with broadband cable - Brussels, 27-28 May: conference on the occasion of the AGM of the European Cable Communications Association (Info: Catherine Prosser, Mortimer House, Tel: +44(0)20.7453.5488, e-mail: ecca@informa.com);
Reform of Economic Union with the Convention - Brussels, 30 May: seminar with participation of Commissioner Michel Barnier, Emilio Gabaglio, Stéphane Collignon, Jean Pisani-Ferry and Pascal Coéré (Info: +33(1)49.88.11.94).