The Center for EU Enlargement Studies (CENS) in cooperation with the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) kindly invites You to the following event on May 14, 9.00 a.m. entitled:
‘Inclusion completed, adaptation successful? - What divides new and old members in the European Union, 6 years on?’
Venue: Central European University (1051 Budapest, Nádor u. 9.), AuditoriumDate: 14 May 2010 (Friday), 9.00am – 18.00pmWelcome speech Heinz Albert Huthmacher, FES Budapest;
John Shattuck, CEU, President and RectorKeynote Speaker Péter Balázs, Foreign Minister, HungaryPanel I - Approaching the 7 year itch - Expectations and explanations: What do old and new members think about each other?Thomas Christiansen, Associate Professor, EIPA;
Enikő Győri, MEP, Group of the European People's Party;Peter Weiss, Ambassador of Slovakia to Hungary;
Kai-Olaf Lang, Research Fellow, SWPPanel II - Changing Brussels’ chemistry – new members, new agendas, new reactions?Thomas König, Department of Political Science, University of Mannheim;
Piotr Maciej Kaczyński, Center for European Policy Studies, Brussels;Tamás Szűcs, Head of EU Delegation in Hungary;
Sabina Kajnč, Lecturer, EIPAPanel III - Development and catching up: is the periphery integrated?Marek Dąbrowski, CASE, Poland;
Ádám Török, Professor of Economics, University of Pannonia and BME;
Lothar Funk, Fachhochschule, Düsseldorf;Julius Horvath, CEU, Department of EconomicsPanel IV - A new leviathan, a heartless compromise, a remote bureaucracy? – Differences in ‘euroscepticism’ in new and old member statesLeonard F. M. Besselink, Faculty of Law, University of Utrecht;
Vit Benes, IIR, Czech Republic;
István Hegedűs, Hungarian Europe Society;Nick Sitter, CEU, Department of Public Policy
Closing speech Tibor Kiss, State Secretary, Foreign Ministry, HungaryPlease find further details at the following link:Registration starts at 8.30.Registration: Zselyke Tófalvi, Tel.:+36 1 327-3000/2391, e-mail: cens@ceu.hu
Frissítés: a konferenciáról angol nyelvű beszámoló érhető el itt. [május 17.]
