GLOBAL JEAN MONNET / ECSA-WORLD CONFERENCE 2010

“THE AFTER THE TREATY OF LISBON”

European Commission, Directorate General Education and Culture, Jean Monnet Programme

Brussels, 25-26 May 2010

CONFERENCE LANGUAGES: FR-DE-EN-IT-ES-NL-PT-EL-DA-FI-SV-CS-HU-PL-SL-BG-RO

FINAL PROGRAMME

Tuesday, 25 May 2010 European Parliament Room P3C050 Paul-Henri Spaak building

08:30 Registration of the participants

09:15 – 10:30 OPENING SESSION AND PRESENTATION OF THE 2010 JEAN MONNET PRIZE

Moderator: Mr Jan Truszczyński, Director General for Education and Culture at the

Musical opening: "Ode To Joy" (Beethoven, Ninth Symphony) by Ms Nathalie Nicaud, Soprano

Keynote speeches: Mr José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission

Ms Doris Pack, Chair of the Committee on Culture and Education of the European Parliament

10:00 – 10:30 2010 Jean Monnet Prize

Presentation of Prize: Ms Androulla Vassiliou, Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth

Jury Co-Presidents: Mr José-Maria Gil-Robles, President of the European University Council for the Jean Monnet Programme; Jean Monnet Chair and Director of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence at the Complutense University of Madrid; former President of the European Parliament; President of the Former Members Association of the European Parliament; President of the Jean Monnet Foundation

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Mr Enrique Banús, President of the European Community Studies Association (ECSA)-World; Jean Monnet Chair, Dean of Humanities, Director of the Charlemagne Institute for European Studies and Director of the Masters in Cultural Management at the International University of Catalonia in Barcelona

SESSION 1: INSTITUTIONAL BALANCE AND INTER-INSTITUTIONAL COOPERATION

10:30 – 12:30

Chairperson: Mr Fausto De Quadros, Jean Monnet Chair and Professor of Public Law, European Law and International Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon

Lead interventions: Political perspective Mr Maroš Šefčovič, Vice-President of the European Commission with responsibility for Inter-Institutional Relations and Administration

Mr Richard Corbett, Advisor in the Cabinet of the President of the European Council; former Member of the European Parliament and former Vice-Chair of its Committee on Constitutional Affairs

Academic perspective Mr Jörg Monar, Director of European Political and Administrative Studies Department at the College of Europe; Jean Monnet Chair of Contemporary European Studies at the University of Sussex

Ms Lucia Serena Rossi, Jean Monnet Chair and Director of the Interdepartmental Center on European Community Law at the University of Bologna

Session editor: Mr Ferdinando Riccardi, Editorialist of Agence Europe

12:00 – 12:30 Debate

LUNCH

12:30 – 14:00 Standing Lunch at the European Parliament's Members Restaurant

SESSION 2: FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND EU CITIZENSHIP

14:00 – 16:00

Chairperson: Ms Jacqueline Dutheil de la Rochère, Jean Monnet Chair and Director of the Centre of the European Law at the University Paris II - Panthéon-Assas

Lead interventions: Political perspective Mr Iñigo Méndez de Vigo, Member of the European Parliament; President of the Administrative Council of the College of Europe; Chairman of the European Parliament Delegation to the Convention drafting the Charter of Fundamental Rights; former member of the Praesidium of the European Constitutional Convention

Mr Aurel Ciobanu-Dordea, Director responsible for Fundamental Rights and Citizenship, Directorate General for Justice, Freedom and Security at the European Commission

Academic perspective Mr Dusan Sidjanski, Special Adviser to the President of the European Commission; Founder and Emeritus Professor at the Department of Political

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Ms Elspeth Guild, Jean Monnet Chair of European Migration Law at the Radboud University of Nijmegen; Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science and at the College of Europe; Teaching Fellow at King's College London; Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies; Partner at Kingsley Napley solicitors

Session editor: Mr Pierre Lemoine, Executive Publisher & Editor-in-Chief of Europolitics

15:30 – 16:00 Debate

SESSION 3: THE NEW EU FRAMEWORK FOR CONFRONTING GLOBAL ECONOMIC CHALLENGES

16.00 – 18:00

Chairperson: Mr Loukas Tsoukalis, Jean Monnet Chair at the University of Athens; President of the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy; Special Adviser to the President of the European Commission

Lead interventions: Political perspective Mr , Commissioner for Trade

Mr Enrique Barón Crespo, Jean Monnet Chair at the Universidad de Castilla La Mancha; Former President of the European Parliament; former Spanish Minister for Transport, Tourism and Communications

Academic perspective Mr Stefan Griller, Jean Monnet Chair and Head of the Research Institute for European Affairs at the Vienna University for Economics and Business; President of ECSA-Austria

Mr Tibor Palánkai, Jean Monnet Chair and Director of the European Studies and Education Center at Corvinus University of Budapest; President of ECSA- Hungary

Session editor: Mr Tim King, Editor of EuropeanVoice

17:30 – 18:00 Debate

DINNER

19:30 Conference dinner at the Hilton Hotel (Boulevard de Waterloo)

Wednesday, 26 May 2010 European Parliament Room P3C050 Paul-Henri Spaak building

SESSION 4: THE EU AS AN INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL AND SECURITY ACTOR

09:30 – 11:30

Chairperson: Ms Anne Deighton, Jean Monnet Chair, Professor of European International Politics and Fellow of Wolfson College at Oxford University

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Mr Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, Member of the European Parliament and former Chair of its Foreign Affairs Committee; former Minister for European Affairs of Poland; Chairman of the Board of the College of Europe in Natolin; former Jean Monnet Professor at the Collegium Civitas Warsaw

Academic perspective Mr Finn Laursen, Jean Monnet Chair, Canada Research Chair in European Union Studies and Director of the EU Centre of Excellence at Dalhousie University

Mr Xinning Song, Jean Monnet Chair at Renmin University in Beijing, P.R. China; Senior Research Fellow at the Comparative Regional Integration Studies Programme of the United Nations University in Bruges

Session editor: Mr Dennis Kefalakos, Editor of NewEurope

11:00 – 11:30 Debate

11:30 – 12:30 CLOSING SESSION

Moderator: Mr Jan Truszczyński, Director General for Education and Culture at the European Commission

Speakers: Mr Luís Miguel Poiares Maduro, Professor of European Law at the European University Institute; Co-Director of the Academy of International Trade Law; former Advocate General at the European Court of Justice

Mr Guido de Marco, Jean Monnet Chair at the University of Malta; former President and former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Malta

Ms Androulla Vassiliou, Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth

Musical closing: "Ode To Joy" (Beethoven, Ninth Symphony) by Ms Nathalie Nicaud, Soprano

LUNCH

12:30 – 14:00 Standing Lunch at the European Parliament's Members Restaurant

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