demosEUROPA - Centre for European Strategy and the Office of the Committee for European Integration remind you about the conference on "New Agenda of the European Union 2009-2014", which will take place on 28 May 2009 in Centralna Biblioteka Rolnicza, Krakowskie Przedmieście Street No 66, Warsaw.

The discussion will feature members of the group of advisors to the Polish government on the EU presidency in 2011. The conference will be devoted to the main objectives and challenges of the European Union in the course of the next institutional cycle 2009-2014, that is after elections to the European Parliament and the nomination of the new European Commission. In the course of the first session of the conference, there will be a discussion on the issues of macroeconomic governance in the EU, new version of the Lisbon Strategy as well as energy and climate policy. The second part will focus on the foreign policy of the EU, including the EU’s role in the world and its initiatives addressed to the closes neighbours.

REGISTRATION

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Programme

14:00 Registration

14.15 Welcome

Paweł Świeboda, President, demosEUROPA - Centre for European Strategy

Piotr Serafin, Undersecretary of State, Office of the Committee for European Integration

14.30 - 15.45 Beyond the crisis - Economic agenda for Europe. Energy, climate, the next financial perspective and its focus on knowledge society, innovation and entrepreneurship.

Moderation: Adam Jasser, Director of Programmes, demosEUROPA - Centre for European Strategy

Piotr Serafin, Undersecretary of State, Office of the Committee for European Integration

Paul Hofheinz, President, The Lisbon Council

Jean Pisani-Ferry, Director, Bruegel

Dieter Helm, Professor of Energy Policy, University of Oxford

15.45 - 17.00 Big Picture : from European Neighbourhood to Global Issues

Moderation: Paweł Świeboda, President, demosEUROPA - Centre for European Strategy

Witold Sobków, Political Director, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (tbc)

Gaëtane Ricard-Nihoul, Secretary General, Notre Europe

Laurent Cohen-Tanugi, Chair, Europe and Globalization Taskforce

Alan Mayhew, Jean Monnet Professor, University of Sussex

Antonio Missiroli, Director of Studies, European Policy Centre

17.00 End of the conference - coffee & drinks

The conference will take place in English.

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