Brussels, 30/04/2008 (Agence Europe) - The main workshops, colloquia, conferences and seminars on issues related to European integration in May 2008:
The outlook for security and defence technologies - Brussels, Monday 5 May, from 12 noon to 4.00p.m. Round table discussion organised by the think tank Security and Defence Agenda. Contact: Jessica Henderson - jessica.henderson@securitydefenceagenda.org .
The European Union after the French Presidency - Brussels, Monday 5, from 6.00p.m. to 7.30p.m. Debate organised by The Centre and the Robert Schuman Foundation. Speakers: Graham Watson, MEP, leader of the ALDE group, Jean-Dominique Giuliani, President of the Robert Schuman Foundation. Contact: meet@thecentre.eu.
Can Europe cap its energy demand? European agriculture and the next generation of biofuels - Brussels, Tuesday 6, from 9.45a.m. to 12.30p.m. Event organised by the European Policy Centre (EPC). Speakers: Mariann Fischer Boel, European Commissioner for Agriculture, Poul Skytte Christoffersen, Head of Mariann Fischer Boel's private office, Ian Hudson, President of DuPont EMEA, Piet Vanthemsche, Vice-President of Boerenbond (Belgian farmers' union), Bas Eickhout, Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (MNP), Hans Martens, EPC Director. Contact: Valérie Gilles - v.gilles@epc.eu.
Agence Europe - a permanent observer of the EU integration since its beginning - Brussels, Tuesday 6, from 1.00p.m. to 2.30p.m. Lunchtime debate organised by the Institut français des relations internationales (Ifri) and introduced by Olivier Jehin, Agence Europe editor in chief et Ferdinando Riccardi, Agence Europe editorial writer. Contact: boodts@ifri.org. Registration: http: //http://www.ifri.org/files/Invitations/MA_IFRI_BXL_REGISTRATIONAGENCEEUROPE.pdf .
Sixty-Minute Briefing on the collection, sharing and protection of data - Brussels, Tuesday 6, from 5.30p.m. to 6.30p.m. Event organised by the EPC. Speaker: Jonathan Faull, Director-General DG Justice, Freedom and Security, European Commission. Contact: Valérie Gilles - v.gilles@epc.eu.
Are sustainable development and economic growth mutually exclusive? - Barcelona, Tuesday 6. Debate organised by Friends of Europe. Speakers: Cristina Gutiérrez-Cortines, MEP, Bertrand Charrier, Vice-President of Green Cross International, David Clark, Director of Tarkett. Information: http: //http://www.friendsofeurope.org/Events/2008/CCBarcelona/tabid/1082/eventtabname/ataglance/Default.aspx .
EU-India: A new partnership on climate change? - Brussels, Tuesday 6. Event organised by The Centre. Speakers: Malini Mehra, founder of the Centre for Social Markets (India), M.K. Lokesh, Deputy Ambassador for India to the EU, Robert Donkers, Environment Adviser, Commission Delegation in India. Contact: meet@thecentre.eu.
A stranger in Europe: Britain and the EU from Thatcher to Blair - Brussels, Tuesday 6, from 6.30p.m. to 8.00p.m. Event organised by The Centre. Speakers: Stephen Wall, former adviser to Tony Blair and former UK Permanent Representative to the EU, Paul Adamson, Director of The Centre. Contact: meet@thecentre.eu.
The multilateral trade forward - Discussion of the Report of the First Warwick Commission, 2007 - Brussels, Wednesday 7, from 1.30p.m. to 5.30p.m. Event organised by the European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE). Speakers include Karl-F Falkenberg, Assistant Director General DG Trade, European Commission and Roberto Eichandi, Ambassador of Costa Rica to Belgium. Contact: info@ecipe.org.
Russia's Economic Resurgence - Brussels, Wednesday 7, from 1.15p.m. to 2.30p.m. Conference organised by the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS). Speakers: Lucio-Mauro Vinhas de Souza, Head of Russia Unit, DG Ecfin, European Commission, Konstantin Trofimov, Russian Deputy Permanent Representative to the EU and Michael Emerson, CEPS. Programme and registration: http: //http://www.ceps.be/Event.php?event_id=298 .
Who's afraid of the WTO? Trade Policy meets Cultural Diversity - Brussels, Wednesday 7, from 6.00p.m. to 8.00p.m. Event organised by the Institute for European Studies (VUB). Speakers: Carole Tongue, Associate Director, Sovereign Strategy, Emmanuel Cocq, DG Information Society and the Media, European Commission. Registration: http: //http://www.ies.be/medialectures/registration .
NATO as a peacekeeper and peace enforcer - Brussels, Thursday 8, from 1.00p.m. to 2.00p.m. Event organised by the Institute for European Studies (VUB). Speaker: Jamie Shea, NATO Secretary General's private office. Contact: secretariat@ies.be.
Romania's economy after EU accession: Can rapid growth be sustained? - Brussels, Tuesday 13. Event organised by Friends of Europe. Speakers: Daniel Daianu, MEP, Anthony O'Sullivan, OECD, Joan Hoey, Chief Economist, The Economist, Lyle Watters, Ford. Contact: anne-christine.wegener@friendsofeurope.org.
Turkey and the EU: current key issues - Brussels, Tuesday 13, from 1.00p.m. to 2.30p.m. Lunchtime-debate introduced in French by Dorothée Schmid, Research Fellow, North Africa/Middle East Centre and Head of Turkey Programme, Ifri. Registration: http: //http://www.ifri.org/files/Invitations/MA_IFRI_BXL_REGISTRATIONSCHMID.pdf .
Product Carbon Footprinting and CO2-Labelling in Europe - Brussels, Tuesday 13. Event organised by The Centre. Contact: meet@thecentre.eu.
What are the next steps towards CCS (Carbon Capture and Storage)? - Brussels, Tuesday 13. Dinner-debate organised by the C.E.R.E.S. Speakers: Prof. Dr. Kurt Häge, President of ETP ZEP and Heinz Hilbrecht, Director, DG TREN, European Commission. Information: http: //http://www.confrontations.org/spip.php?page=evenement&id_article=432 .
Régulation financière: vers un nouvel agenda européen (marché intérieur, coopération transatlantique, agenda bilatéraux et multilatéral) - Brussels, Wednesday 14, from 12 noon to 2.30p.m. Seminar organised by Confrontations Europe. Speakers: Karel Lanoo, CEPS, Nicolas Véron, Bruegel, Philippe Herzog, Confrontations Europe. Contact: Ursula Sérafin - userafin@confrontations.org.
Which French Presidency for which Europe? - Paris, Wednesday 14. 8th Ifri seminar on this issue. Speakers: Laurent Cohen-Tanugi, President of “Europe dans la mondialisation”, Eric Le Boucher, columnist with Le Monde, Jacques Mistral, Head of Economic Studies, Ifri.
European Organisation for Security (EOS) launch event - Brussels, Wednesday 14 and Thursday 15. Event organised by EOS, with Jacques Barrot, Commission Vice-President, Mr Klich, Polish Defence Minister, Mr Pavlopoulos, Greek Defence Minister, Karl von Wogau, MEP, M. Guillou, President of EADS et Mr Berglund, Frontex. Information and registration: http: //http://www.eos-eu.com/EVENTS/tabid/61/Default.aspx .
Russia Day - Brussels (in the premises of the European Parliament), Thursday 15. Day organised by the European Parliament and the EU-Russia Centre.
Brussels Economic Forum 2008 - Brussels, Thursday 15 and Friday 16. Forum organised by the European Commission. Taking part: Jean-Claude Trichet, President of the ECB, Christine Lagarde, French Economy and Finance Minister, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, IMF Managing Director, Joaquin Almunia, European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs, Tommaso Padoa Schioppa, former Italian Finance Minister. Information and registration: http: //ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/events/event12012_en.htm.
The French Presidency of the EU in 2008 and its impact on franco-german relations. Paris, Monday 19. Cerfa annual conference, organised in cooperation with the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. Speakers: Alain Le Roy, Ambassador with responsibility for the Union of the Mediterranean project, Paris, Heinrich Wilhelm Beuth, Minister Plenipotentiary at the German Embassy in France, Ulrich Kelber, MP, deputy leader of the SPD parliamentary group, Bundestag, Berlin, Nicole Gnesotto, Professor at the CNAM, Paris, Mathias Jopp, Director of the Institute for European, Berlin. Information: http: //http://www.ifri.org/frontDispatcher/ifri/manifestations/conf_rences_1031842048599/publi_P_conf_annuelle_cerfa_1208528953168 .
Reality Check on EU Bioenergy Targets - Brussels, Monday19. Conference organised by the CEPS. Contact: eleni.kaditi@ceps.eu. Registration: http: //http://www.ceps.be/Events.php
The new oil nationalism: governance, rents, and market power - Brussels, Tuesday 20, from 9.00a.m. to 11.30a.m. Ifri Seminar with Marie-Claire Aoun, Researcher at the Centre of the Geopolitics of Energy and Primary Materials, Université Paris Dauphine and Jean Pierre Favennec, Director, Centre for Economics and Management, IFP. Programme: http: //http://www.ifri.org/files/Energie/annonce_2005.pdf . Contact: jaureguy@ifri.org.
Transatlantic relations: perspectives for 2009 - Brussels, Tuesday 20, from 1.00p.m. to 2.30p.m. Lunchtime debate organised by the Ifri and introduced in English by Ronald Asmus, Executive Director of the German Marshall Fund's Transatlantic Centre in Brussels. Contact: boodts@ifri.org. Registration: http: //http://www.ifri.org/files/Invitations/MA_IFRI_BXL_REGISTRATIONASMUS.pdf .
Dealing with the credit crunch - Brussels, Tuesday 20 at 7.00p.m. Dinner-debate organised by Friends of Europe, with Joaquin Almunia, Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner. Information: http: //http://www.friendsofeurope.org Events/2008/DDCreditcrunch/tabid/1080/eventtabname/ ataglance Default.aspx. (O.L.)