Seminar “Europe's Security and Defence: What Next?”
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Seminar “Europe’s Security and Defence: what next?” Friday, March 11th 2016, Paris Background Goal & subject matter: This seminar is an outreach event which aims to stimulate informed dialogue about the changing nature and increasing importance of national and supranational security policy in Europe. It will be open to a broad public (attendance by invitation only) and is particularly targeted towards students, academia, thinktanks, NGO’s and civil servants (including diplomats and military). The seminar means to explore two sides of foreign and security policy: diplomacy and defence. On these closely related disciplines, the seminar aims to explore the big challenges that Europe will face in the medium and longer term, looking at the operational, institutional and political aspects of security cooperation. The interplay between the responsibilities of the EU, its individual member states and NATO will constitute a central theme. The ongoing preparations for the EU foreign security policy strategy (which will be presented by HR Mogherini in June 2016) create a useful context. However, the aim is not to replicate ongoing policy discussions in Brussels, but rather to take a step back and look at the global positioning of the EU and its individual member states, and exchange views on the necessary military and diplomatic ‘tools and strategies’ to effectively contribute to peace and security for the next generations. Discussion topics (not exhaustive): - What are the most important threats to Europe’s security in the next decades? - What role for the EU in responding to threats to European citizens? - How should the EU be reformed to become an even more effective foreign policy and defence actor? - To what extent do Europeans countries converge on their security policies? - To what extent is the EU security role compatible with national defence policies? - Are European citizens sufficiently informed about the EU security and defence role? - Will/should ‘security’ as such become the new driving force behind European integration? - How can EU security strategy be translated into EU (military) planning and action? - What should be the scope, scale and nature of EU’s military capacity? Seminar “Europe’s Security and Defence: what next?” Friday, March 11th 2016, Paris Practical information The seminar will be jointly organized by the ISS European Union Institute for Security Studies, the Netherlands embassy and the French and Netherlands Ministries of Foreign Affairs and of Defense. Venue: The seminar will take place in Paris. Invitations: The targeted audience consists of students in international affairs, NGO’s, research institutes, academia, civil servants, Paris, The Hague, or Brussels based diplomats and military. Registration: If you’d like to participate, please fill out the online registration form: http://goo.gl/forms/K9pS3Uc5VM (In case a firewall in your organisation should block access to the online form, we would like to inform you that it has been tailored to access via mobile phone and tablet device as well) Defence Colonel Jan Blacquière, Defence Attaché Marieke Riesmeijer, Assistant T : +33 1 40 62 33 42 @ : [email protected] European Affairs Mr Casper Holl, Counselor European Affairs T: +33 1 40 62 63 26 Netherlands Embassy, Paris Embassy, Netherlands @ : [email protected] Seminar “Europe’s Security and Defence: what next?” Provisional Programme Friday, March 11th 2016, Paris 08:30 - 09:00 Registration and welcome participants 09:00 - 09:30 . Chairman’s opening remarks by Colonel Jan Blacquière, Defence Attaché, Netherlands Embassy, Paris Opening . Short video message by Mrs Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy . Introduction by the French and Netherlands Ministers of Defence o Mr Jean-Yves Le Drian, France o Mrs Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, Netherlands 09:30 - 11:00 “What EU foreign policy in a turbulent world?” Diplomacy . Mr Pierre Vimont, Diplomat (former Ambassador of France to the US and Executive Secretary-General of the European External Action Service), Senior associate at Carnegie Europe (confirmed) . Mr Tom de Bruijn, Diplomat (former Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the EU) (confirmed) . Moderator: Mr Manuel Lafont Rapnouil, Director, European Council on Foreign Relations Paris (ECFR Paris) (confirmed) 11:00 - 11:20 Break 11:20 - 12:50 “Defence implications of the EU global role.” Defence . Mr Michel Barnier, Special Advisor for Security & Defence to the President of the European Commission (confirmed) . General (2s) Patrick de Rousiers, Former Chairman of the European Union Military Committee (confirmed) . Lieutenant General (retired) Ton van Loon, Former Commander of 1. German/Netherlands Corps in Münster, Germany (confirmed) . Moderator: Mr Thierry Tardy, Senior Analyst, European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) (confirmed) 12:50 - 13:00 . M. Dr Antonio Missiroli, Director, European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) Conclusion . Colonel Jan Blacquière, Defence Attaché, Netherlands Embassy, Paris .