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Brochure 2018 PRAGUE EUROPEAN SUMMIT BROCHURE 2018 Základní varianty značky Úřadu vlády České republiky: Office of the Government of the Czech Republic ORGANIZERS Office of the Government of the Czech Republic STRATEGIC PARTNER Office of the Government of the Czech Republic MAIN INSTITUTIONAL PARTNER MAIN INSTITUTIONAL PARTNER INSTITUTIONAL PARTNER Colors of Official Logo BLUE GREY BLACK CMYK 070-000-020-000 CMYK 000-000-000-060 CMYK 000-000-000-100 Pantone Coated 3115 C Pantone Cool Gray 5 C Pantone Black C Pantone Uncoated 3105 U Pantone Cool Gray 5 U Pantone Black U RGB 003-191-215 RGB 102-102-102 RGB 000-000-000 WEB #03BFD7 WEB #666666 WEB #000000 MAIN PARTNER MAIN PARTNER MAIN PARTNER PARTNER PARTNER SUPPORTER Prague SUPPORTER SUPPORTER SUPPORTER PRAGUE TALKS PARTNER CONTENTS 03 Welcome words 04 Venues 05 Organizers 06 International Programme Board 2018 14 Speakers 30 The Conference Agenda 2018 34 Contact WELCOME WORDS Welcome words “The wind is back in Europe’s sails,” Jean-Claude Juncker, European Commission President, declared in his last annual State of the European Union speech (2017). He immediately added that we, the Europeans, must chart the direction of the future, and “catch the trade winds in our sails” to move forward in advancing the European idea and the vision of peace and prosperity on the continent. Making a case for a more united, stronger and more democratic Europe, Juncker offered earlier during the year five scenarios embodying the possible future of European integration: carrying on, nothing but the single market, those who want more do more, doing less more efficiently, and doing much more together. It is clear to me that such a debate is needed; a debate featuring competing visions that we can confront, yet that remains grounded in the normative core of the principles of freedom, equality, inclusiveness and the rule of law that should, in Juncker’s words, mean that there are no second class citizens, no second class workers, and no second class consumers. Such normative approach does not apply solely to affairs of the continent: in the conduct of EU’s external affairs, these fundamental values are embodied by the rule of “principled pragmatism” coined in the EUGS. A debate is needed and all the more timely since the sense of acute crisis of European political community has finally withered, yet the uncertainty remains as the EU is to become a union of one less; trust in the public institutions is challenged across the continent; social anxiety and paranoia empower the prophets of easy solutions to complex problems; the breakdown of agreement about reality is now, as Salman Rushdie has recently put it, “the most significant reality”; and the external environment is not short on challenges either, from continued instability in Europe’s neighbourhoods to the uncertainty concerning the commitment of the U.S. administration to effective multilateralism and the norms forming the bedrock of the liberal order. To successfully meet these challenges and emerge stronger from the trials of the day, the EU needs to avert political decay, adapt its institutions that must once more be seen as true societal articulations, and steer the world outside toward positive change whilst responsibly and sensitively managing relevant risks. As the late Václav Havel claimed in his speech in front of the European Parliament in Strasbourg (1994), “if the citizens of Europe understand that this is not just an anonymous bureaucratic monster to limit or even deny their autonomy, but simply a new type of human community that actually broadens their freedom significantly, then the European Union need not fear for its future.” That is no mean task. A condition of its success is looking beyond the horizons of what we know in a true dialogue that opens the way to deeper understanding. The Prague European Summit has become an established forum for such dialogue; a platform that engages the pertinent issues we face in a true agora where politicians and public servants meet academics, journalists, businessmen and businesswomen, and civil society representatives. This year, such pertinent issues comprise exclusionary populism and whether it is declining, resurgent or – most worryingly – gradually normalised in the political mainstream; the prospect of the EU’s strategic autonomy, its role in the neighbourhood, and the deepening of defence cooperation; the future of labour and the impacts of related technological trends on EU societies; ramifications of the new financial framework; or the dynamic of the transatlantic relationship. Ladies and Gentlemen, it is our great pleasure to welcome you, on behalf of all the organisers and partners, at this year’s Prague European Summit. We wish you all productive and enjoyable deliberations, and many new encounters! Vladimír Bartovic Ondřej Ditrych Director Director EUROPEUM Institute Insitute of International for European Policy Relations Prague PRAGUE EUROPEAN SUMMIT | 03 VENUES Venues The Czernin Palace serves as the seat of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs . It hosts many significant negotiations The Lobkowicz Palace at Prague Castle is one of the and serves for the purposes of multiple conferences most significant cultural sites in the Czech Republic and and sessions. It is not by accident that it is here where the only privately owned building in the Prague Castle the Warsaw Treaty was dissolved at the beginning of complex, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Through the 1990s. The Czernin Palace has been visited by the centuries, the Palace witnessed some of Bohemia’s most council of presidents, ministers of foreign affairs and important historical events. It houses part of the highly- other important personalities from over the world. All acclaimed The Lobkowicz Collections, a unique collection Czechoslovak ministers of foreign affairs had their of paintings, rich decorative art, spectacular arms and offices here, and also the ministers of foreign affairs of armor, and rare musical instruments and manuscripts the Czech Republic continue in this tradition. by Beethoven and Mozart, including Beethoven’s 4th In 1923, the Czechoslovak government decided that the and 5th symphonies and Mozart’s re-orchestration of Czernin Palace will be allotted to the Ministry of Foreign Handel’s Messiah. Affairs, whose offices were dispersed in several places Originally known as the Pernštejn Palace, it acquired its in Prague. One year later, the architect Pavel Janák won present name when Jaroslav’s niece, Polyxena, married the contest for the completion and reconstruction of the Zdeněk Vojtěch, 1st Prince Lobkowicz (1568– 1628), in palace. In the course of five years, between 1929 and 1603. 1934, the palace was rebuilt according to the original In the centuries following that union, the Palace witnessed design of Francesco Caratti, and a number of old pieces some of Bohemia’s most significant historical events. of furniture and equipment, acquired from both local and At the start of World War II, the Palace was confiscated foreign antiquarians, returned to the building. from the Lobkowicz family by the Nazi forces invading After the Second World War the activity of the Czechoslovakia. Returned in 1945, it was seized again Czechoslovak Ministry of Foreign Affairs was renewed in following the Communist takeover of the country in 1948. the Czernin Palace in the May of 1945. Necessary clearing After the Velvet Revolution of 1989 and the subsequent works and arrangements had to be carried out again. fall of the Communist government, the passage of While dumping the sand and clay, that has been taken restitution laws made it possible in 2002 for the Palace out of the shelter, a set of keys with numbers written to be returned to the Lobkowiczes once again. with Gothic characters was found. These were the lost On 2 April 2007, following more than four years of keys to the room, in which Czech coronation jewels were planning, restoration and refurbishment, the Palace was stored. Jan Masaryk, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and reopened to the public. It houses the Lobkowicz Palace son of the first Czechoslovak president, Tomáš Garrigue Museum and also serves as a unique venue for private Masaryk, used to live in the garret of the Czernin Palace and corporate events. in the post-war years. 04 | PRAGUE EUROPEAN SUMMIT ORGANIZERS EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy is a non-profit, The Institute of International Relations, Prague (IIR) is an non-partisan and independent think-tank focussing on independent public research institution which conducts European integration and cohesion. EUROPEUM was excellent academic research in the larger field of founded in 1998 with the goal of supporting the Czech international relations, which includes European studies, Republic’s efforts to become a fully-fledged member of security studies, area studies and other related disciplines. the EU, and has established itself as a respected think- IIR has been the leading academic institution for the study tank in the Czech Republic and across Europe. In 2017 it of international relations in the Czech Republic since 1957 has been ranked as the 5th best think-tank in CEE and and it is also an active member of several international therefore the best in the Czech Republic within the Global research networks. In its IR research, it sets national Go To Think Tank Index, which is published annually by benchmarks for the quality of scientific research in the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program (TTCSP) of International Relations. As an independent institution the Pennsylvania University. EUROPEUM fulfils its motto originally founded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the “Czech vision for Europe, European vision for the Czechs” IIR also provides policy analysis and recommendations. through research, educational activities, publications, It serves as a hub for academics, policy makers and the conferences and seminars. It also intensively cooperates general public. It stimulates the expert, intellectual and with Czech and European institutions and partners, public debates on the Czech foreign policy, European and formulates concrete recommendations aiming to affairs and global issues.
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