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Lost in transition or fit for the future?
Central Europe Ten Years After EU Accession

23 January 2014
Venue: New Connect, Warsaw Stock Exchange
Książęca 4, Warsaw

DemosEUROPA – Centre for European Strategy (Warsaw), together with the Central European Policy Institute (Bratislava), invite to a discussion about where Central Europe finds itself after 10 years of EU membership. We will review the region’s record in the EU as well as look into the challenges of the next decade. 

In the course of the event,  the report „Central Europe fit for the future“ we will launched. which is a result of the work of a High-Level Reflection Group whose members included all the speakers and panelists of the event as well as Ivan Krastev, Réka Szemerkényi, Edward Lucas, Peter Javorčík, Josef Christl, Milan Ježovica, Katarína Mathernová, Martin M. Šimecka.

The conference will be held in English.

Programme:

14:00 - 14:30 Registration

14.30 – 14.35 Welcome

• Paweł Świeboda, President, demosEUROPA – Centre for European Strategy 

14.35 – 15.00 Key-note introductions:

• Jiří Schneider, First Deputy Foreign Minister, Czech Republic 

• Henryka Mościcka-Dendys, Undersecretary of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Poland

15.00 – 15.10 Presentation of the report „Central Europe fit for the future“

• Paweł Świeboda, President, demosEUROPA – Centre for European Strategy 

• Milan Nič, Executive Director, Central European Policy Institute, Bratislava

15.10 – 16.00 Panel discussion

• Danuta Hübner, Chair of the Regional Development Committee in the European Parliament, former EU Commissioner for Regional Policy

• Roman Kuźniar , Foreign Policy Advisor to the President of Poland 

• Henryka Mościcka-Dendys, Undersecretary of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Poland

• Rainer Münz, Head of Research, Erste Group Bank AG, Austria

• Jiří Schneider, First Deputy Foreign Minister, Czech Republic 

Chaired by: Paweł Świeboda and Milan Nič

16.00 – 16.30  Questions and answers

16:30 Concluding remarks