Europe at Risk

EUROPE AT RISK Common Security and Defence Policy at Risk? Vienna, January 21-22, 2013

The discussion is jointly organized by Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue Centre for Liberal Strategies European Council on Foreign Relations Directorate for Security Policy of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Defence and Sports Balkan Trust for Democracy

Sunday, January 20, 2013

Arrival of participants

Monday, January 21, 2013 08.45 Transfer from hotel to conference venue

09.30 Welcome and opening address Gertraud Auer Borea d'Olmo, Secretary General, Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue Johann Pucher, Major General, Defence Policy Director, Austrian Federal Ministry of Defence and Sports

09:45 Introduction: Summary of findings of Seminars I – III Ivan Krastev, Chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies; Permanent Fellow IWM Hermann Lattacher, Director of the Bureau for Security Policy, Austrian Federal Ministry of Defence and Sports Moderator: Joseph Janning Director of Studies, European Policy Centre

11.00 Coffee break

Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue – Armbrustergasse 15 – 1190 Vienna, Austria – Tel: (+43 1) 318 82 60-0, Fax: +43 1 318 82 60 10 – www.kreisky-forum.org Centre for Liberal Strategies - 26 Solunska Str. - 1000 Sofia, Bulgaria – Tel: (+359 2) 981 89 26, 986 14 33 - Fax. (+359 2) 981 89 25 - www.cls-sofia.org

11.20 Key Note Address: Ivailo Kalfin, Member of the European Parliament (S&D), Former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Bulgaria (2005 - 2009)

11.30 Panel 1: Recent initiatives of European actors regarding the future of CSDP and defence industry Krzystof Lisek, Deputy Chair of Committee on Foreign Affairs, European Parliament Luigi Vitiello, DG Enterprise and Industry, European Commission Daniel Korski, Adviser to the High Representative Jakub Wisniewski, Head of Policy Planning, Polish MFA Giovanni Faleg, Research Fellow at the Italian Institute for International Affairs (IAI) in Rome and Visiting Researcher at CEPS Moderator: Johann Pucher, Major General, Defence Policy Director, Austrian Federal Ministry of Defence and Sports

13.00 Lunch

14.00 Panel 1 continued

15.00 Panel 2: What do EU’s neighbours and other key strategic actors expect from the EU’s CSDP? Andrey Kortunov, Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council, President of the New Eurasia Foundation in Moscow; Jolyon Howorth, Visiting professor of Political Science at Yale; Suat Kiniklioglu, Chairman, Center for Strategic Communication (STRATIM), former Member of Parliament; Martin Kimani, Director, Conflict Early Warning and Responce Mechanism CEWARN; Moderator: Avrum Burg, Israeli author and political activist, former Speaker of the House, Jerusalem

16.30 Coffee break 17.00 Panel 2 continued

19.00 Dinner at Heuriger Zimmermann

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

8.15 Transfer from hotel to conference venue

09.00 Summary of findings of the first day Hermann Lattacher, Director of the Bureau for Security Policy, Austrian Federal Ministry of Defence and Sports CSDP basic options and scenarios Johann Frank, Head of Division for Security Political Analysis, Austrian Federal Ministry of Defence and Sports

09.45 Plenary discussion: Future of CSDP – what are the key questions and what are possible answers? How to convince the political leadership and the public? Moderator Stefan Lehne, expert on European foreign policy and international security, visiting scholar, Carnegie Europe, Brussels

10.30 Coffee break

11.00 Plenary continued

12.30 Concluding remarks Gertraud Auer Borea d'Olmo, Secretary General, Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue Johann Pucher, Major General, Director of Directorate General for Security Policy at the Austrian Federal Ministry of Defence and Sports Ivan Krastev, Chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies; Permanent Fellow IWM

13:30 Lunch

Afternoon Departure of participants