The Baltic and Visegrad States: After Twenty Years of Shared Interest in Europe

An international conference organized by: The Institute of International Relations in Prague in cooperation with:Embassy of the Republic of Estonia in the Czech RepublicEmbassy of the Republic of Hungary in the Czech RepublicEmbassy of the Republic of Latvia in the Czech RepublicEmbassy of the Republic of Lithuania in the Czech RepublicEmbassy of the Republic of Poland in the Czech RepublicEmbassy of the Slovak Republic in the Czech Republic

8. 11. 2011 (9:30)

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Keynote Speech: Jiří Schneider, First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic

Panel I: Challenges for European Economic Governance

Chair: Tomáš Weiss, EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy

Participants:
Czech Republic - Jiří Georgiev, Deputy Secretary of State for EU Affairs, Office of the Government of the Czech Republic
Estonia - Signe Ratso, Director in DG TRADE for Market Access and Industry, European Commission
Latvia - Artis Bertulis, Head of the EU Directorate, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia
Poland - Małgorzata Kaluzynska, Director of the Department of Economic Policy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland
Hungary - Géza Mocsáry, Deputy Director of the EU Economic Policy Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Hungary

Panel II: The Future of the Eastern Partnership through Baltic and Visegrad Lenses

Chair: Martin Ehl, Hospodářské noviny

Participants:
Lithuania - Liudas Mažylis, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas
Czech Republic - Petr Mareš, Ambassador, Special Envoy for the Eastern Partnership, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic
Hungary - Ádám Szesztay, Director of the Strategic Planning Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Hungary
Estonia – Erkki Bahovski, Estonian Foreign Policy Institute
Poland - Jarosław Dziedzic, Minister Counsellor, Head of Division for Eastern Partnership, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland
Slovak Republic - Igor Derco, Eastern Europe, South Caucasus and Central Asia Territorial Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic

Panel III: Energy Security and Beyond: the Contribution of the Baltic and Visegrad Countries

Chair: Jan Žižka, E15

Participants:
Hungary - Anita Orbán, Ambassador-at-Large for Energy Security, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Hungary
Lithuania - Audrius Bruzga, Ambassador, Director of the Energy Security Center, Vilnius
Czech Republic - Václav Bartuška, Ambassador-at-Large for Energy Security, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic
Slovak Republic - Urban Rusnák, Ambassador, Special Representative of the MFA for the External Energy Security
Latvia – Andris Spruds, Director of the Latvian Institute of International Affairs

Programme of the conference you can download here.

Working language:

English.

Here you can read "The Baltic and Visegrad States: After Twenty Years of Shared Interest in Europe" report.

Auspice

The Embassies of the Baltic and Visegrad States