After the European Elections - New challenges under the Lisbon Treaty

demosEUROPA - Centre for European Strategy, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, the Independent International and European Law Institute as well as the Kozminski University Law School, jointly invite to a conference "After the European Elections. New challenges under the Lisbon Treaty", which will take place on 9 June 2009 in Kozminski University Law School , Jagiellonska Street No. 57/59, Warsaw.

The speakers include Polish and German MEPs, the representatives of Bundestag and the Senate as well as Polish and German experts. The first panel will deal with an overview of the elections results and the relationship between national parliaments and the European Parliament. The second will analyse the role of the European Parliament as envisaged by the Lisbon Treaty and the challenges of the transition period. The introductory speech for this part would be addressed by Minister Mikołaj Dowgielewicz, Secretary of State at Poland’s Office of the Committee for European Integration.

The debate will be held in Polish and German with simultaneous translation.

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Programme

13.45 - 14.00 Registration and coffee

14.00 - 14.15 Welcome

Prof. Andrzej K. Koźmiński, Rector, Kozminski University

14.15 - 15.30 Political panel

Moderation: Peter Hengstenberg, Director of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Poland

Jo Leinen, Member of European Parliament

Michael Roth, Member of Bundestag

Prof. Edmund Wittbrodt, Chair of the European Union Affairs Committee of the Senate

Polish MEP (tbc)

15.30 - 15.45 Coffee break

15.45 - 17.30 Experts’ panel

Moderation: Wawrzyniec Smoczyński, "Polityka" weekly

Mikołaj Dowgielewicz, Secretary of State, Office of the Committee for European Integration (introductory speech)

Prof. Jan Barcz, Kozminski Law School, Kozminski University

Paweł Świeboda, president, demosEUROPA - Centre for European Strategy

Prof. Rainer Arnold, University of Regensburg

The debate will be held in Polish and German with simultaneous translation.

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