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Focus A | Focus B | Focus C | Focus D | Focus E
FOCUS A :
The European Union, a major actorin the 21st-century world: strenghtening regional integration , confronting global challengesand domesticating globalisation

The European Union today represents one third of world wide trade and economy; it is indeed a major actor of the 21st century.
However the European Union is just about to discover its leading role and to find out that it has to assume it.
Will the EU give way to the will of power temptation like most European nations did in the past centuries? Or will Europe try in contrast to invent a new role, with aims and instruments of external action suitable with its own perception of itself as a multinational political entity of a new kind?
How will its partners, and in the first place the United States, will react to these developments?
How will the EU manage to transmit outside the thoroughly innovative process that led to its foundation 50 years ago?

Moderator - Reporter


Adrian TAYLOR
TIESWeb's member
EU Scholar in Residence in the United States

- THURSDAY 5 OCTOBER 2000 -

15.00 - 15.30

Opening session :
. Mr Poul NIELSON, European Commissioner for Development
will be represented by M. Paul NEMITZ, Advisor, European Commission

Poul NIELSON
Paul NEMITZ
15.30 - 16.00 Debate / Questions
16.00 - 18.30

PANEL A1: The EU, a deliberate catalyst of international relations in the XXIst century : new powers, civil societies, corporates

Mr Jaroslav CHLEBO, State Secretary for European Affairs, Slovak Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Slovak Republic
Intervention : 'EU enlargment as response to the challenges of the third millenium'

Mr Gilles DENOYELLE, Consultant, France
Intervention : 'L'UE, catalyseur, exemple ou modèle?

Mrs Susanne DRAKE, Directrice, Institute for International Assitance and Solidarity
Intervention : "The Vienna Platform: networking European civil society for the challenge of globalisation'

Mrs Catherine VIEILLEDENT, Administrator, European Commission; General-Secretary of the association 'Points Cardinaux'
Intervention : 'The EU confronted with the reorganisation of the world's system of institutions and with new actors: structuring co-operation between States, transnational and civil societies'

Mr Wawa A. NGENGE, Coordinateur, SDNP Cameroun (Sustainable Development Networking Programme)
Intervention : 'Pipes for people: the key to sustainable development and international cooperation between Europe and Africa in the information age'


- FRIDAY 6 OCTOBER 2000 -

09.30 - 11.30

PANEL A2 : The EU, a promotor of the new objective challenges of globalisation : environment, natural resources, poverty, ethics, access to information ...

Mrs Samantha BOLTON, Head of Communication, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

Mr Jacques BONJAWO, Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington; Président du Comité Directoire de la Fondation PathFinder
Intervention : 'The Internet : A Chance For Africa and for a More Peaceful and Prosperous World'

Mr John HONTELEZ, General Secretary, European Environment Bureau, Belgium
Intervention : 'A Sustainable Development Strategy for Europe'

Mr Jeppe KOFOD, Member of the Danish Parliament,
(representing Mr Jan TROJBORG, Danish Minister of Development and Cooperation, Copenhagen)

Mr Julius SEN, Doctorate student, London School of Economics, United Kingdom
Intervention : 'How the EU can help developing countries participate more effectively in Multilaeral Trade Negotiations'

11.45 - 13.30

PANEL A3: The transatlantic relation in the XXIst century : the laboratory of a more stable word or a matrix for new conflicts ?

In Partnernship with

Ms Charlotte YOUNG, Student, NASF, Canada

Mr Eric HAYES, Head of Unit United States, Directorate General for External Relations, European Commission, Brussels
Intervention : 'Shaping the New Transatlantic Agenda for the new Millennium'

Mr Francisco MARMOLEJO, Executive Director, Consortium for Nothern America Higher Education, USA
Intervention : 'Global Trends and Universities. Challenges and Opportunities for Transnational Higher Education Collaboration: The Case in North America'

Mr. Brian MURPHY, Directeur, European Centre, Georgia University, Atlanta, Etats-Unis
Intervention : 'Strengthening the Transatlantic Dimension: the EU-US relationship in transition'

Mr Guillaume PARMENTIER, Head of the French Center on the United States (C.F.E.), IFRI, Paris
Intervention : 'Il faut réformer les structures transatlantiques'

Mr David SIEFKIN, First Secretary and Assistant Cultural Attaché at the United States Embassy in Paris

15.00 -17.15

PANEL A4: The UE, a privileged partner for regional integrations : Mercosur, Asean, …

Mr Stelios CHRISTOPOULOS, Directorate General for Development, European Commission, Brussels
Intervention : 'Some light on the specific reasons explaining why the EU is considered as a special partner for regional integration'

Mrs Graça GONCALVES PEREIRA, Diplomat, Portuguese Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Lisbon
Intervention : 'How the EU progressively adapted its institutionalised relationships with countries and regions around the world to the globalisation'

15.00 -17.15

PANEL A5: The EU, an innovating architect of the new international organisations (integration, law…)

M. Francis TEITGEN, Bâtonnier de l'Ordre des Avocats à la Cour de Paris, France

M. Jean-François JESUS, Avocat; Chargé de travaux en droit communautaire institutionnel dirigés, Université de Versailles-St Quentin en Yvelines, France
Intervention : 'L'Etat-membre, pièce du puzzle communautaire'

M. Saïd CHARCHIRA, Teacher, Forum des Migrants de l'Union européenne, Belgium

19.00 - 21.00

Closing session : Reception by Mr Hubert VEDRINE , French Minister for European Affairs, in The Grande Salle à manger of the Foreign Affairs Ministry..

Hubert VEDRINE


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