DRAFT PROGRAMME Tuesday, 25 May 2010 - European Parliament Room P3C050 - Paul-Henri Spaak building 08:30 Registration of the participants 09:15 – 10:15 OPENING SESSION Moderator: Mr Jan Truszczyński, Director General for Education and Culture at the European Commission Keynote speeches: Mr Jerzy Buzek, President of the European Parliament Mr José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission 10:15-10:30 PRESENTATION OF THE JEAN MONNET PRIZE 2010 Presentation: Mrs 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 of the European Parliament; President of the Jean Monnet Foundation 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 Jean-Luc Dehaene, Member of the European Parliament, former Prime Minister of Belgium; former Vice-Chair of the European Constitutional Convention; former President of the Administrative Council of the College of Europe Academic perspective Mr Jörg Monar, Director of European Political and Administrative Studies Department at the College of Europe; Marie Curie Chair of Excellence at the Robert Schuman University in Strasbourg; Jean Monnet Chair of Contemporary European Studies at the University of Sussex (on leave) Mrs 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 Dining room, Altiero Spinelli buidling SESSION 2 : FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND EU CITIZENSHIP 14:00 – 16:00 Chairperson: Mrs 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 Mrs Viviane Reding, Vice-President of the European Commission with responsibility for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship 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 Academic perspective Mr Dusan Sidjanski, Special Adviser to the President of the European Commission; Founder and Emeritus Professor at the Department of Political Science of the University of Geneva; Honorary President of the European Cultural Centre in Geneva 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 AND ENVIRONMENTAL 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 Mrs Pervenche Berès, Member of the European Parliament, Chair of its Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, former Chair of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, Substitute Member of the European Constitutional Convention 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 Ms Helena Tendera-Wlaszczuk, Jean Monnet Chair, Director of the Department of European Economic Integration and Coordinator of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence at Cracow University of Economics Session editor: Mr Tim King, Editor of EuropeanVoice 17:30 – 18:00 Debate DINNER 19:30 Conference dinner Hilton Brussels Boulevard de Waterloo 38 1000 Brussels 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: Mrs Anne Deighton, Jean Monnet Chair, Professor of European International Politics and Fellow of Wolfson College at Oxford University Lead interventions: Political perspective Mrs Catherine Ashton, Vice-President of the European Commission and High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy 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 Alexandros Koronakis, 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 Péter Balázs, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hungary; Director of the EU Enlargement Centre at the Central European University; former Jean Monnet Chair at Budapest Corvinius University Mr Guido de Marco, Jean Monnet Chair at the University of Malta; former President and former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Malta Mrs Androulla Vassiliou, Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth LUNCH 12:30 – 14:00 Standing Lunch at the European Parliament's Members Dining room, Altiero Spinelli buidling .