PROGRAM

 

10.00
Welcome speech
Miloš Vučević, mayor of Novi Sad

Opening statement
Norbert Beckmann-Dierkes, Director, Konrad Adenauer Foundation, representative office in Belgrade
Aleksandar Simurdić, Secretary General, European Movement – Novi Sad

Keynote speech
Goran Svilanović, Secretary General, Regional Cooperation Council

10.30
Brexit – a provocation for the EU, motivation for new member states, stimulation for anti-european forces?

Opening remarks
H.E. Giuseppe Manzo, Ambassador of the Republic of Italy in Serbia (tbc)

Panelists:
Dejan Jović, Professor, Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Péter Balázs, Director of the Centre for European Neighborhood Studies (CENS), former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hungary, former EU Commissioner for Regional Policy, Hungary (tbc)
Oskar Benedikt – Deputy Head of the Mission, Delegation of the European Union in Serbia
Steven Blockmans, Professor, Head of EU Foreign Policy, Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) and Professor of EU External Relations Law and Governance, University of Amsterdam, Belgium
Rumyana Kolarova, Professor, Secretary for Education, Science and Relations with the Civil Society of the President of the Republic of Bulgaria and Associate professor in political science at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, head of the Political Science department, Bulgaria
Hedvig Morvai, Director, European Fund For the Balkans (tbc)
Tomas Žornaczuk, Head of the Central Europe Programme, The Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM), Poland
Aleksandar Andrija Pejović, Head of the Negotiating Team for Accession of the Montenegro to the European Union, Montenegro (tbc)

Moderators:
Ljubica Gojgić, journalist, RTV
Borislav Papić, journalist, RTS

11.30
Events in the East - Arab spring, Balkan fall and realistic solutions

Opening remarks
H.E. Christine Moro, Ambassador of France to the Republic of Serbia

Panelists:
Amb. Istvan Gyarmati, President, International Centre for Democratic Transition
Goran Svilanović, Secretary General, Regional Cooperation Council
Amb. Mihajlo Brkić, Former Ambassador of Republic of Serbia to Kuwait
Patrycja Sasnal, PhD, Head of the Middle East and North Africa Project, Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM)
Dragan Štavljanin, PhD, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Prague
Tuba Eldem, Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Yeni Yuzyil University, Turkey
Denko Maleski, Professor, Faculty of Law, University Sts. Cyril and Methodius in Skopje and Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Amb. Zlatko Dizdarević, Former Ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina to Croatia, Jordan, Iraq, Syria and Liban
Rumyana Kolarova, Professor, Secretary for Education, Science and Relations with the Civil Society of the President of the Republic of Bulgaria and Associate professor in political science at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, head of the Political Science department, Bulgaria

Moderators:
Ljubica Gojgić, journalist, RTV
Gorislav Papić, journalist, RTS

13.30
Lunch

14.15
Europe after the United States presidential election - the West in its new or old form?

Opening remarks
H.E. Kyle Randolph Scott, U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Serbia (tbc)

Panelists:
Ivan Vejvoda, Senior Vice President of the German Marshall Fund (tbc)
Amb. Istvan Gyarmati, President, International Centre for Democratic Transition
Vuk Jeremić, President, CIRSD (tbc)
Dragan Štavljanin, PhD, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Prague
Denko Maleski, Professor, Faculty of Law, University Sts. Cyril and Methodius in Skopje and Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Dejan Jović, Professor, Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia

Moderators:
Ljubica Gojgić, journalist, RTV
Gorislav Papić, journalist, RTS

16.00
Conclusions

17.00
Live video link for Dnevnik RTV

Miloš Vučević, mayor of Novi Sad
NorbertBeckmann-Dierkes, director of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, representative office in Belgrade
Aleksandar Simurdić, secretary general, European Movement – Novi Sad

19.30
Live video link for Dnevnik RTS

Miloš Vučević, mayor of Novi Sad
NorbertBeckmann-Dierkes, director of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, representative office in Belgrade
Aleksandar Simurdić, secretary general, European Movement – Novi Sad

20.00
Evaluation talks with engaged panelists and moderators during dinner organized by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, representative office in Belgrade