GLOBAL JEAN MONNET / ECSA-WORLD CONFERENCE 2010
“THE EUROPEAN UNION AFTER THE TREATY OF LISBON”
European Commission, Directorate General Education and Culture, Jean Monnet Programme European Parliament
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 European Commission
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 Karel De Gucht, 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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