Brussels, 27/11/2008 (Agence Europe) - A selection of important workshop, conferences and seminars on European integration issues in December 2008:
The security implications of Europe's energy thirst - Brussels, Monday 1 December. Round table organised by Security and Defense Agenda (SDA). Further information and programme available at:
http: //http://www.securitydefenceagenda.org/Hiddenpages/EventMgt/tabid/542/EventType/EventView/EventId
/337/ThesecurityimplicationsofEuropesenergythirst.aspx
The European response to the financial crisis - Brussels, Monday 1 December, 1.15 - 2.30pm. Dinner debate organised by Notre Europe, Breugel, the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) and European Policy Centre (EPC). Speakers include Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa (President, Notre Europe and former Italian finance minister), Daniel Gros (Director, CEPS), Hans Martens (Chief Executive, EPC) and André Sapir (Senior Fellow, Bruegel, and Professor, ULB). Facilitator: Wolfgang Munchau (Associate Editor, Financial Times). Registration and information: http: //http://www.notre-europe.eu/fileadmin/IMG/doc/EuropeanResponse.doc .
Building ICT research bridges on the Atlantic - Brussels, Tuesday 2, 9.15am - 2.30pm. Event involving representatives of businesses, research centres and universities in Latin America specialising in information and communications technology (ICT). The objective is to meet European ICT organisations with a view to future transatlantic cooperation. Further information: http://www.solar-ict.eu and http://www.winds-la.eu. Registration: Carolina Pavese, Solar-ICT pavese@teseo.be - Tel. + 32 (0) 2 230 10 90
L'UE vue par les Français - Brussels, Tuesday 2, 1.00 - 2.30pm. Lunch debate with Véronique Auger, Chief Editor with responsibility for Europe - French national TV channel France 3. Debate chaired by Susanne Nies, Manager of the Institut Français des Relations Internationales (Ifri). Registration: http: //http://www.ifri.org/frontDispatcher/ifri/manifestations/d_jeuners_et_diners_d_bats_ 1043938397808/publi_P_mib_auger__1227521759129
Parliamentary reform - Living up to the expectations? - Brussels, Tuesday 2, 6.00 - 8.00pm. Workshop organised by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. Speakers: Dagmar Roth-Behrendt MEP and Hartmut Nassauer, MEP. Further information: http: //http://www.kas.de/proj/home/events/9/2/-/-/veranstaltung_id-33397/. Contact: sekretariat@eukas.eu
Democracy, populism and minority rights - Brussels, Wednesday 3, 1.15 - 2.3pm. Conference organised by CEPS. Speakers: Jan Marinus Wiersma MEP and Hannes Swoboda MEP and Michael Emerson, CEPS. Contact: amboudou@ceps.eu.
Les ambitions spatiales de l'Europe en 2009 - Brussels, Wednesday 3, 1.30 - 6.0pm. Seminar organised by IFRI. Speakers include Susanne Nies, Manager of IFRI-Brussels, Géraldine Naja-Corbin, Head of institutional affairs and strategic studies at ESA, Sylvia Kainz-Huber, Head of Space and Coordination Unit at DG Enterprise, European Commission, Mathieu Weiss, Space Adviser at France's Permanent Representation to the EU, Ondrej Mirovsky, GMES Coordinator at the Czech Space Bureau, Laurence Nardon, Manager of IFRI's Space Programme, Carlo Magrassi, Deputy Director General for strategy at EDA and Patrice Brudieu, Sub-Director for defence and security issues at CNES. Contact: Martine Breux - breux@ifri.org
Transatlantic politics of climate change - Brussels, Wednesday 3, 6.00 - 8.00pm. Event organised by Institute for European Studies (VUB). Speakers: Miranda Schreurs, Director, Environmental Policy Research Centre, Free University Berlin and Rik Coolsaet, Ghent University. Information: http: //http://www.ies.be/node/536
European citizens' consultations - Giving the citizens a voice in the current economic crisis - Brussels, Wednesday 3, 6.00 - 8.00pm. Event organised by EPC. Speakers: Jean-Pierre Jouyet, French Secretary of State for European Affairs, Margot Wallström, EU Communications Commissioner, Diana Wallis MEP. Contact: n.news@epc.eu.
Les enjeux commerciaux liés - la PAC - Brussels, Thursday 4, 10.00am - 12.30pm. Meeting of “Confrontations Europe” Food and Public Safety Working Group with Gérard Choplin, Member of “Coordination Européenne Via Campesina” (formerly “Coordination Paysanne Européenne”). Information: http: //http://www.confrontations.org/spip.php?page=evenement&id_article=420.
Israel-EU relations: the next decade - Brussels, Thursday 4, 5.00 - 10.45 pm. Event organised by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. Speakers: Ran Curiel, Israel's Ambassador to the EU, Elmar Brok MEP and Avishay Braverman, Israeli parliamentarian. Contact: sekretariat@eukas.eu.
Annual Europe-China academic network conference - Brussels, Thursday 4 and Friday 5. Event organised by ECAN. Speakers: Eneko Landaburu, Director General of DG Relex, European Commission, Song Zhe, China's Ambassador to the EU and Franz Jessen, Head of the China Unit at DG Relex, European Commission. Contact: info@ec-an.eu.
Transatlantic views on EU security and defence policy - Brussels, Friday 5, 12.30 - 2.00pm. Event organised by The Centre. Speakers to include Kristen Silverberg, United States Ambassador to the EU. Contact: meet@thecentre.eu.
The future of EU external relations towards the East - Brussels, Friday 5, 12.30 - 2.00pm. Event organised by the Friedrich-Ebert Foundation. Speaker: Eneko Landaburu, Director General, DG Relex, European Commission. Contact: fes@fes-europe.eu.
A Europe-wide referendum on the Lisbon Treaty - A debate on the future of Europe? - Brussels, Friday 5, 5.00 - 7.0pm. Event organised by Vision-Prometheus. Speakers: Sandro Gozi, Italian parliamentarian, and James Wickham, Trinity College, Dublin. Contact: euroreferendum@visionforum.org.
Long live Europe! Shaping our healthcare revolution - Brussels, Monday 8, 12.00 - 6.00pm. “European Policy Summit” organised by Friends of Europe and Novartis, with Androula Vassiliou, European Health Commissioner, and Robert Madelin, Director General SANCO, European Commission. Information:
http: //http://www.friendsofeurope.org/Events/tabid/452/EventType/EvenView/EventId/340/LongliveEurope
Shapingourhealthcarerevolution.aspx. Contact: info@friendsofeurope.org.
Deepening the partnership between the European Union and the Republic of Moldova - Brussels, Monday 8, 11.00am -3.30pm. Event organised by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. Speakers: Valeriu Ostalep, Moldova's Vice Minister of Foreign Ministers, Marianne Mikko MEP, Kalman Miszei, EU Special Representative in Moldova, Andri Veselovsky, Ukraine's Ambassador at the EU, Remi Duflot, DG Relex, European Commission, Nicu Popescu, European Council on Foreign Relations. Contact: sekretariat@eukas.eu.
The French EU Presidency: A dizzying ride through rocky times - Brussels, Wednesday 10, 12: 30 - 2.30pm. Event organised by the Heinrich Böll Foundation. Speakers: Maxime Lefèbvre, Russia and Eastern European advisor, France's Permanent Representation to the EU, and Susanne Nies, Director, IFRI. Contact: Ebertowski@boell.be.
Lessons of the financial meltdown: What new rules and architecture? - Brussels, Wednesday 10, 12.30 - 2.30pm. Event organised by Friends of Europe. Speakers: Joaquín Almunia, EU Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner, Poul Nyrup Rasmussen MEP, John Monks, ETUC General Secretary, Axel Miller, former head of Dexia, and André Sapir, economist. Contact: registrations@friendsofeurope.org.
The EU, Russia and climate change - Brussels, Wednesday 10, 6.00 - 8.00 pm. Event organised by the Institute for European Studies (VUB). Information: http: //http://www.ies.be/node/537.
Executive compensation in the aftermath of the crisis - Brussels, Thursday 11, 10.00am - 5.00pm. Conference organised by CEPS. Speakers: Pervenche Berès MEP, Elies Messaoudi, European Commission, Onno Ruding, former Dutch finance minister. Contact: isabelle.tenaerts@ceps.eu.
Les impacts de la crise financière sur les politiques énergétiques en Europe - Brussels, Friday 12, 2.00 - 5.00pm. Meeting of Confrontations Europe Energy Working Group. Further information: http: //http://www.confrontations.org/spip.php?page=evenement&id_article=476.
The EU and the future of international climate protection - Brussels, Wednesday 17 December. Event organised by the Institute for European Studies (VUB). Speakers: Nicola Notaro, DG Environment, European Commission, Laurence Tubiana, “Institut du développement durable and des relations internationals” (IDDRI). Information: http: //http://www.ies.be/node/538.
Les relations franco-allemandes dans le secteur de l'Énergie - Brussels, Thursday 18, 9.00 - 11.30pm. IFRI seminar. Contact: breux@ifri.org. Further information:
http: //http://www.ifri.org/frontDispatcher/ifri/manifestations/s_minaire_1033636016876/publi_P_energie_
mar_s_______1222330555835.
On the road to Copenhagen - The outlook for climate policy - Event organised by Friends of Europe. Brussels, Thursday 18, 12: 30 - 2.00pm. Programme: http: //http://www.friendsofeurope.org/portals/6/Documents/Programmes/2008-12-18_CC_ClimateChange_ ProgAndRegForm.pdf. (O.L./trans.fl)