EuroMeSCo General Assembly and Annual Conference 2016 13-15 April 2016, Egmont Palace, Towards a security architecture for the Mediterranean: A challenge for Euro-Mediterranean relations DRAFT PROGRAMME 13th April ______15.00 – 17.00 Meeting of the EuroMeSCo Steering Committee (for members of the Steering Committee only)

17.00 –19.00 Meeting of the EuroMeSCo General Assembly (for EuroMeSCo members and observers)

20.30 Dinner

14th April ______

09.00 – 10.00 Opening Session Welcome Remarks Senén Florensa, Executive President, IEMed and President of EuroMeSCo Steering Committee Marc Otte, Director General, EGMONT – Royal Institute for International Relations

Official address by: Nasser Judeh*, Minister of Foreign Affairs - Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Fathallah Sijilmassi, Secretary General, Union for the Mediterranean

10.00 – 11.30 Plenary Session: Mapping the Security Threats in the Mediterranean This first Plenary could be used to set the security scene in the Mediterranean, i.e a collapse of an already fragile security balance in the Mediterranean, with renewed tensions between some States and the collapse of others, but also with the increasing threat coming from politicized sectarianism, terrorist groups and other non-conventional and human security threats. This situation bears serious risks for the stability of the Euro- Mediterranean space and beyond.

Chair: Christian Berger, Director for North Africa, Middle East, Arabian Peninsula, Iran and Iraq, EEAS Speakers: Nicolas Pascual de la Parte, Ambassador Representative to the Political and Security Committee Menouar Alem, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Morocco to the EU Bassma Kodmani*, Executive Director, Arab Reform Initiative

Şaban Kardaş, President, ORSAM Ettore Greco, Director, Istituto Affari Internazionali Debate with participants

11.30 – 12.00 Coffee break

12.00 – 13.30 Plenary Session: The Current Security Framework in the Mediterranean The second Plenary would look into the current security architecture in the Mediterranean and how it is fit for addressing the situation described in the first panel. This would entail a review of regional schemes, the role of regional States and regional organisations as well as of international players (State actors but also international organisations and the EU) in conflict resolution.

Chair: *, Secretary General, European External Action Service Speakers: Fadel M. Jawad*, Assistant Secretary General, Head of the Political Sector, League of Arab States Ali Al-Za’tari*, Deputy Special Representative and Head of United Nations Support Mission in Libya Ian Lesser, Senior Director for Foreign and Security Policy, German Marshall Fund Tamara Cofman Wittes, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings Florence Gaub, Senior Analyst, Institute for Security Studies Debate with participants

13.30 – 14.30 Lunch

14.30 – 16.30 Parallel Sessions to present the results of the Working Packages

Terrorist Threat in the Euro- Migration and Refugees: Impact Youth Activism in the South and Mediterranean Region and Future Policies. Case East Mediterranean Countries Studies of Turkey, Jordan, since the Arab Uprisings: Lebanon, Italy, Spain and Challenges and Policy Options Greece

Coordinator: Hanaa Ebeid, Coordinator: Musa Shteiwi, Coordinator: Silvia Colombo, Researcher, ACPSS Director, CSS Senior Fellow, IAI

Main authors: Main authors: Main authors: Patrycja Sasnal, Head of Middle Roderick Pace, Professor, Nadine Abdalla, Research East and North Africa Project, Institute for European Studies, Associate, AFA PISM University of Malta Omar Shaban, Director, Pal- Dalia Ghanem-Yazbeck, Dimitris Skleparis, Research Think Research Analyst, Carnegie Fellow, ELIAMEP Isabel Schäfer, Senior Middle East Center Sükrü Erdem, Professor, Researcher, DIE Fouad Ammor, Researcher, CERMC GERM

Debate with participants Debate with participants Debate with participants

15th April ______

09.00 – 11.00 Parallel Working Sessions

Hard Security Challenges in the Socio-Political Challenges in the Energy and Environmental Euro-Med region Euro-Mediterranean Challenges and Geopolitics in Evolution of hard security Impact of domestic the Mediterranean threats, including terrorism, developments and economy on Implications of climate change sectarian violence and intra and the reform processes and and natural resources evolution inter-state conflicts, and their stability of states. for the regional landscape. impact on future dynamics in the Mediterranean.

Chair: Sven Biscop, Director of Chair: Hatem Ben Salem, Chair: Anne- Didier, Europe in the World Programme, Director, ITES Director, Plan Bleu EGMONT

Paper Presenters: Paper Presenters: Paper Presenters:  Institutionalizing Libyan Militias:  The (R)evolution that MENA  Geopolitics, Gas and Grand Towards an Inclusive Strategy, Countries Need: Good Ambitions: The Outlook for Ziad A. Akl, Senior Governance, Youth Inclusion, Petroleum Production in the Researcher, ACPSS and Trust, Haizam Amirah- East Mediterranean, Diána  Regional Security Architecture: Fernández, Senior Analyst, Szőke, Policy Analyst, IFAT Concepts, Initiatives and ELCANO  Water Security and Diplomacy: Realisation Potentials, Ali  Lebanon: the Microcosm of the What Implications for the EU’s Fathollah-Nejad, Associate Middle East, Mario Abou Zeid, Relations with its Broader Fellow, DGAP Research Analyst, Carnegie Southern Neighbourhood?, Middle East Francesca Fabbri, Programme Assistant, Andrea Frontini, Policy Analyst, EPC

Discussants: Discussants: Discussants: Oded Eran, Senior Research Mustapha Kamel Al Sayyid, Eugenia Ferragina, Senior Fellow, INSS Executive Director, Partners in Researcher, ISSM Mattia Toaldo, Senior Policy Development, Egypt Mohamed Behnassi, Associate Fellow, ECFR Mohamed ElHachimi, Senior Professor, Ibn Zohr University of Research Fellow, CERSS Agadir Marc Franco, Senior Associate Fellow, EGMONT Debate with participants Debate with participants Debate with participants

11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break

11.30 – 12. 30 Parallel Kick-off meetings of the new set of Working Packages

Future of Syria Transformation in Tunisia: the Mapping Migration Challenges in First Five Years the EU Transit and Destination Countries

Coordinator: Mensur Akgun, Coordinator: Wolfgang Coordinator: Erzsébet Rózsa, Director, GPoT Mühlberger, Senior Research Senior Research Fellow, IFAT Fellow, FIIA

Main authors: Main authors: Main authors: Salam Kawakibi, Deputy Emmanuel Cohen-Hadria, Maja Bučar, Professor, Director, ARI Head of Euro-Mediterranean Head of CIR, University of Florence Gaub, Senior Analyst, Policies Department, IEMed Ljubljana EUISS Senén Florensa ,Executive Marko Lovec, Research Fellow Sylvia Tiryaki, Deputy Director, President, IEMed CIR, University of Ljubljana GPoT Sherin Gharib, Researcher,OIIP Gunilla Herolf, Board Member, Omar Sheira, Project Officer Isabel Schäfer, Senior TEPSA and Researcher, GPoT Researcher, DIE Christian Druck, CAP Jordi Quero Arias, Researcher, Stefano Torelli, Research Roderick Parkes, Senior CIDOB Fellow, ISPI Analyst, EUISS

Debate with participants Debate with participants Debate with participants

13.00 – 14.00 Lunch

14.00 – 16.00 Plenary Session: Towards a New Security Architecture for the Mediterranean? What Role for the EU? The last Plenary session would aim at identifying the ingredients of a new security architecture in the Mediterranean. It will dwell on the format, participants, goals and concrete actions to be pursued by future multilateral security initiatives in the region and will aim to be connected to the reflection on the EU Global Strategy.

Chair: Miguel Angel Moratinos, Former Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Speakers: Joost Hiltermann, MENA Programme Director, International Crisis Group Anis Salem, Ambassador, Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs Pierre Vimont, Senior Associate, Carnegie Europe Debate with participants

16.00 – 16.30 Closing Session Closing remarks by: Irène Mingasson*, Head of Unit, Regional Programmes Neighbourhood South, DG NEAR

Final remarks by: Senén Florensa, Executive President, IEMed and President of EuroMeSCo Steering Committee Bichara Khader, Professor, Université Catholique de Louvain and Chair of the EuroMeSCo General Assembly