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Focus A | Focus B | Focus C | Focus D | Focus E
FOCUS B :
500 million Eurocitizens in 2020 : building and runninga joint democracy on a continental scale

Until 2010 the European Union will consist of about 500 million citizens from more than 20 different countries and cultures, speaking even more different languages. Never before in history such a diversified human concoction equipped with such a high level of democracy has existed. There is no archetype describing its political organisation, its administrative architecture, its judicial system, … . The Europeans will have to invent step by step from the very beginning solutions to those problems arising from the peaceful coexistence of all these peoples, citizens and aspirations. This will be all the more necessary since democracy itself and governance meet a significant change as new information technologies emerge in the context of what can be called the Second Wave of Democratisation (the first wave belonging to the end of the 18th / beginning of the 19th century).

Moderator - Reporter


Mrs Lorraine DE BOUCHONY
Director, TransNational Consulting/ WelcomEurope, Paris;
Vice-President of Prometheus-Europe

In Partnernship with

- THURSDAY 5 OCTOBER 2000 -

15.00 - 16.00

Opening Session :
. Mrs Elisabeth GUIGOU, French Minister of Justice
. Mr Antonio VITORINO, European Commissioner in charge of Justice and Internal Affairs, European Commission

Elisabeth GUIGOU
Antonio VITORINO
16.00 - 17.00 Debate/Questions
17.00 - 19.00

PANEL B1: Setting up a European political and administrative network in order to serve 500 million citizens

Mr Jean-François BERNICOT, Member of the European Court of Auditors, Luxemburg
Intervention : 'La mise en réseau du contrôle budgétaire et financier dans l'Union européenne'

Mr Olivier DE BAYNAST, Head of European and International Affairs Service, Ministry of Justice, France

Mrs Elisabeth GATEAU, General Secretary, Council of European Local Authorities and Regions, Paris
Intervention : 'Nouvelle gouvernance en Europe : les 70.000 collectivités territoriales de l'Union - un partenaire majeur de la politique européenne'

Mr Alan PRATLEY, Former Financial Controller at the European Commission, Brussels
Intervention : 'Rationalising the political and administrative management of Europe'

Mr Vladimir VALACH, Ambassador of the Slovak Republic in Paris
Intervention : 'Le processus d'adhésion à l'UE comme accélérateur des processus de transformation dans les pays-candidats'


- FRIDAY 6 OCTOBER 2000 -

09.30 - 11.30

PANEL B2 : Inventing and implementing the mobilizing political process for the Euro-Citizens : towards a Common Democracy

Mr Miklos BARABAS, Director, European House, Hungary
Intervention : 'An All-European Benefit: Enlargement of the European Union'

Mr Thom DE BRUIJN, Director General of European Affairs, Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hague

Mr Hubertus DESSLOCH, Director, Representation Office of the Bavarian State in Brussels
Intervention : 'Le rôle que jouent les Représentations des Länder allemands'

Mr. Philippe HERZOG, President 'Confrontations', France
Intervention : 'Le rôle de la société civile dans la refondation du projet européen'

Mrs Laurence MONNOYER-SMITH, Researcher, Equipe Espace Public européen, Laboratoire de Communication Politique, CNRS, France
Intervention : 'Quels scénarios d'avanir pour l'émergence d'un espace public européen?'

11.45 - 13.00

PANEL B3: The Euro-Citizen : secured by law and security in the European space

Mr Harald GREIB, Federal Interior Ministry, Berlin
Intervention : 'La sécurité du citoyen face aux institutions et le respect du droit par celles-ci - Quelles réformes proposer?'

Mrs Elisabeth PELSEZ, Magistrate, chargée de mission pour le réseau judiciaire européen, Ministère français de la Justice
Intervention : 'L'espace judiciaire européen: le réseau judiciaire européen et Eurojust, quel avenir?'

Mr Alain RENS, Ambassador of Belgium in France
Intervention : " L'Euro-citoyen, garanti par le droit et en sécurité dans l'espace européen "

Mrs Denise SORASIO, Director, Directorate General for Justice and Internal Affairs, European Commission, Brussels
Intervention : 'Vers un espace de liberté, de sécurité et de justice. Le cadre juridique et politique de l'action de l'UE en matière de justice et d'affaires intérieures'

14.30 -16.30

PANEL B4: Creating a convergence between Democracy, Europe and Internet : inventing the European E-lections of 2004 and 2008

Mr Régis JAMIN, President, Election.com Europe
Intervention : Internet, ferment de la société civile mondiale'

Mr Christophe LECLERCQ, Publisher & Managing Director, EurActiv.com
Intervention : 'Internet, a new media on EU affairs'

Mr Paul SORIANO, President of IREPP (Institut de Recherches et Prospective Postales); Groupe Tocqueville (Internet & Politique), Internet Society
Intervention : 'Vers un espace de liberté, de sécurité et de justice. Le cadre juridique et politique de l'action de l'UE en matière de justice et d'affaires intérieures'

16.45 -18.30

PANEL B5: Cultural diversity and political unity : the challenge of languages and of translation technologies

Mr Alain CLAVET, Analyst, Internet Society, Canada
Intervention : 'Le gouvernement du Canada et le français sur Internet'

Mr. Gregorio MEDRANO-ASENSIO, Advisor to the European Commission
Intervention : 'Science in the frame of Europe's culture'

Mr. Jan PRINS, President, Internet Society, Pays-Bas
Intervention : 'Internet, a blessing in different disguises'

Mr Marc REGNARD, President, Association UnitéE, France
Intervention : 'Quelle(s) langue(s) pour une Europe politique?'


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