nUMBer 3 | noVeMBer 2010 KAS InternAtIonAL InforMAtIon froM tHe DePArtMent of EuROPEAN ANd INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION tABLe of ContentS I Page 2 editorial I Page 3 focus I Page 4 PoLItICAL DIALoGUe: MeDIA: DIALoGUe on VALUeS eConoMIC AnD economic and Social In August a CDU/CSU The first Germany- AnD reLIGIon: SoCIAL GoVernAnCe: Governance delegation visited Africa journalism The chairman of the The former president I Page 6 South-East Asia, led seminar took place KAS, Dr. Hans-Gert of Ghana, John Kufuor, rule of Law by the head of its during the World Cup Pöttering, received an called at a KAS event I Page 8 parliamentary group in South Africa. honorary doctorate for the acceptance of Media Volker Kauder. from Korea University Africa as an economic I Page 10 in Seoul. partner. KAS Panorama I Page 12 Political Dialogue I Page 15 Democracy and Development I Page 16 Dialogue on Values and INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION religion I Page 18 IN TIMES OF GLOBAL CRISIS energy and the environment I Page 19 news from the Department In mid-September 2010, the KAS organised of european and a conference on the global financial crisis as International Cooperation seen from the perspective of the G-20 coun - I Page 20 tries in cooperation with the delhi-based newly Published research institute, the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), its European partners, the Centre d’études prospectives et d’informations inter - Indian Finance nationales (CEPII) and the Bruegel think-tank, Minister Pranab as well as the Asian development Bank Insti - Mukherjee held the keynote address at tute (AdBI) and the International Monetary keynote address. He called the financial and the Delhi conference. Fund (IMF). economic crisis that began in 2007 a potential turning point in world history, saying the crisis More than 140 economists, analysts and politi - showed the fragility of the world’s financial and cal scientists tackled matters ranging from economic institutions. In the age of globalisation, financial market reform, trade and investment a credible international cooperation strategy to the re-establishment of a stable global equi - on economic matters has never been more im - librium, the overhaul of the international cur - portant, and the G-20 has laid the groundwork rency system and financial security. represen - for that strategy. Montek Singh Ahluwalia, deputy tatives from Australia, China, India, Japan, chairman of the India’s Planning Commission, russia, South Africa, South Korea and turkey criticised the lack of input from outsiders received as well as representatives from Western indus - by the G-20. He appealed for the involvement trialised countries attended. one highlight was of more specialised think tanks and experts in the Indian finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee’s work of the grouping. 2 | KAS InternAtIonAL 3/2010 EdITORIAL dEAR REAdER, the main theme of this issue of KAS International is PUBLICAtIon "Paths out of the financial and economic Crisis." In recent InforMAtIon months, the KAS has organised a variety of projects on issues fundamental to economic governance, as a result Publisher Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e .V. of the crisis of the last two years. What has become International Cooperation apparent time and again is how so many issues are con - Klingelhöferstr. 23 nected to the fundamentals of the Social Market economy. D-10907 Berlin the KAS sees as a key issue to support a global dialogue Editor-in-chief on the principles of this form of economic gover nance – and in particular in the Dr. Gerhard Wahlers foundation’s international work. Editors I Dr. Helmut Reifeld We remain steadfast supporters of an economic and social model that has provided (Overall coordination) I Germany with uninterrupted economic and social stability in difficult times. the Silke David I Valentin Pitz German government’s approach to crisis management has been crucial in helping re-establish economic prosperity. recently released figures speak for themselves. I Dr. Karsten Grabow other countries are full of praise for Germany’s positive economic development and (Political Dialogue) I Christian Hübner the efforts made by the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel. this also becomes (Media, Energy and clear when reviewing a July 2010 study by the foundation and 18 of its offices Environment) I abroad (www/kas.de/blick-von-aussen, in German only). the reports paint an Dr. Angelika Klein (Dialogue on Values and especially positive picture, underscoring our efforts worldwide for a Social Market Religion) economy. I Dr. Helmut Reifeld (Democracy and Development) I Susanna Vogt the cooperation of the KAS with european Union member states is of a particular (Economic and Social nature and goes beyond its support for a Social Market economy. foreign policy Governance) I within the eU is no longer foreign policy in the classically understood sense. Julia Weber (Media) european foreign policy now differs in significant ways from traditional foreign, I Dr. Jan Woischnik security and development policy. In acknowledgement of this fact, the Konrad- (Rule of Law) Adenauer-Stiftung has renamed this department the Department of european and Contact: International Cooperation. this name change reflects the special quality of cooper - FirstName.LastName@ ation with states belonging to the european Union. kas.de Translation Thomas Marzahl, Berlin Berlin, December 2010 Gestaltung SWITSCH KommunikationsDesign, Köln Fotos Dr. Gerhard Wahlers, Deputy Chairman of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung KAS © 2010 Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e .V. KAS InternAtIonAL 3/2010 | 3 Governance, as defined by the principles of a Social Market Economy, is based upon closely interlinked political, economic and social systems. FOCuS LECTuRE SERIES "THE SOCIAL MARKET ECONOMY IN AN INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT " ANANd SHARMA ANd JOHN KuFuOR AT THE KAS As part of his talk in the KAS lecture series "the Social Market economy in an International Context," the former president of Ghana, John Kufuor, called on europe to recognise Africa as an equal economic partner and to promote it, too. "We don’t want charity, we want investment that will pay off for both sides," he told an audience of some 200 people in mid- September at the KAS Academy. He recommended an African model of Social Market economy for the conti - nent’s development, saying it could provide the best type of economic governance. Africa could no longer Social market play the role of supplier of raw materials for other economy – continents, he stressed. Since 2000, the African econ - a model for the future? omy has grown continuously and opened its markets to the world. Hartwig fischer, Africa expert of the A current KAS re - CDU/CSU parliamentary group, underscored the impor - port on the Social Market Economy tance of knowledge transfer in his remarks on Kufuor’s and the effects of speech. the MP encouraged German companies to the crisis on the do more in Africa, adding that the continent faced European economy. The publication a bright future thanks to people like the ex-president. includes lectures by Professor Danuta As part of the same lecture series, India’s Commerce Hübner MEP and Vaira Paegle, chair and Industry Minister Anand Sharma highlighted his of the European country’s new role and particular strengths in a speech Affairs Committee in Berlin at the beginning of october. "the train is The former president of the Republic of Ghana, John Kufuor, in the Latvian gathering speed and we want to be sitting at the very and Anand Sharma, the Indian minister of commerce and parliament. The industry, gave talks in Berlin at the invitation of the Konrad- speeches were front," said Sharma. India is considered one of the big Adenauer-Stiftung. held in January winners of globalisation – its economy made it nearly 2010 at a KAS event in Prague unscathed through the financial crisis. As a result, on party dialogue Sharma called for structures that reflect the "reality German companies needed a reliable governance in Central and of a multi-polar world," while also pointing to the framework. He called India’s rise one of the "most Eastern European countries. need for coordination through the G-20, for example. exciting chapters in recent history" since it demon - He expressed his hope that this informal grouping strated the enormous dynamism and creativity of of the world’s biggest industrialised and emerging humans. What matters now is harnessing new oppor - nations would take on a leading role. "India is a very tunities in a way that would benefit both countries. important country for Germany," Peter Hintze, the parliamentary state secretary in the German Ministry of economics, said in his introduction, but added that 4 | KAS InternAtIonAL 3/2010 ECONOMIC ANd SOCIAL GOVERNANCE Professor Volker Nienhaus, expert on Islamic eco - VALuES-BASEd ECONOMIC SYSTEMS: nomics during the Berlin symposium; ISLAM ANd THE SOCIAL MARKET ECONOMY participants in the Abu Dhabi symposium; Professor Michael What elements the Social Market economy and an neither Christendom nor Islam prescribes a con- Wrobel from the Polytechnic School economic system shaped by Islam share was the top - crete economic model – instead they establish certain in Zwickau and ic of discussion at three symposiums in Abu Dhabi, ethical and moral principles that should serve as Professor Hayri Ankara and Berlin, with each gathering reflecting local guidelines to economic activity. experts concluded Kirbasoglu, Ankara University interests and needs. After all, values-based economic that different concepts taking these principles into models with a long-term perspective are more in account could emerge – depending on interpretations demand than ever. Given recent developments in the as well as the social and historical framework. Both financial markets, it seems that the establishment of religions have such values as justice, fair competition, strict rules and a framework within which the market responsibility, thrift and respect for private property can develop freely are both urgently needed.