15/10/2009 (Agence Europe) - Roland Ries, mayor of Strasbourg in France, and Nawel Rafik-Elmrini, deputy mayor of Strasbourg with responsibility for EU and international affairs, are joining the European Parliament's office in Strasbourg to host a series of EU conferences organised by the young European journalists' association (AJPE). The conferences will discuss EU current events and are intended to become a regular event. The first will take place on Friday 16 October 2009 at 18.00 hrs at the 'Aubette' in Kléber Square in Strasbourg, attended by Francisco Seixas da Costa, Portugal's ambassador to France and former Portuguese EU affairs minister, Jean-Jacques Fritz, director of the EP's information office in Strasbourg and Frédérique Berrod, a professor at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium, and at the 'Institut d'Etudes Politiques' (IEP) in Strasbourg. (O.J.)