“CRACKING BORDERS, GROWING WALLS. EUROPEANS FACING THE UKRAINIAN CRISIS” A public debate and seminar on the 40 th anniversary of the declaration of the Helsinki Final Act

8-9 September 2015, DRAFT PROGRAMME

Tuesday, 8 September 2015 Teatr Polski / Polish Theatre, Warsaw

Public debate

16.00 Registration Coffee and refreshments

17.00 Welcome: Jarosław Kuisz, Kultura Liberalna, , CNRS Paris Michael Thoss, Allianz Kulturstiftung Cornelius Ochmann, Stiftung für deutsch-polnische Zusammenarbeit Antje Contius, Fischer Stiftung

17.15 Opening presentations: Robert Cooper, Special Advisor at the European Commission Yaroslav Hrytsak, Ukrainian Catholic University, Jarosław Pietras, General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union

17.40 Panel 1: The current crisis Viola von Cramon, Alliance '90/The Greens Ola Hnatiuk, Polish Academy of Sciences , publisher-editor of Die Zeit, , Aleksander Smolar, President of Stefan Batory Foundation, CNRS Paris Matt Steinglass, The Economist Chairing : Karolina Wigura, Kultura Liberalna, University of Warsaw, and Katya Gorchinskaya, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna

19.00 Panel 2: Looking into the future of European integration Ulrike Guérot, European Democracy Lab Asle Toje, Norwegian Nobel Institute Roman Kuźniar, former foreign policy advisor to President Bronisław Komorowski Adam Daniel Rotfeld, University of Warsaw, former ’s Minister of Foreign Affairs , Chairing : Sylvie Kauffmann, Le Monde, and Jarosław Kuisz, Kultura Liberalna, University of Warsaw, CNRS Paris

20.30 Celebratory Dinner “Różana” Restaurant, 7 Chocimska Street, Warsaw

Wednesday, 9 September 2015

Seminar

10.00 Registration Coffee and refreshments

10.50 Welcome: Jarosław Kuisz

11.00-13.30 Discussion: Can the Helsinki Final Act provide inspiration for international security today? With additional participation of journalists from: The Economist, Le Monde, The American Interest, Die Zeit, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Gazeta Wyborcza, Polskie Radio, France 24, TVN 24 Biznes i Świat Chairing : Kacper Szulecki, Kultura Liberalna, University of Oslo, and Łukasz Jasina, Kultura Liberalna

13.30 Lunch and transfer to airport