The National Perspectives on the Future of the European Union

Programme

12:30 - 13:00 Registration

13:00 - 13:15 Welcome words

Petr Kratochvíl, Director, Institute of International Relations, Prague
Christian Lequesne, Director, CERI-Sciences Po, Paris

13:15 - 14:30 Panel I: Activization of Central Europe? Czech and Polish Views

Chair: Philippe Rusin, Director, CEFRES, Prague
Petr Kratochvíl, Director, Institute of International Relations, Prague
David Cadier, Fellow, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), London
Piotr Maciej Kaczyński, Policy Adviser, European Parliament, Brussels

14:30 - 14:45 Coffee break

14:45 - 16:00 Panel II: A Franco-German Engine? French and German Views

Chair: Pavel Fischer, Political Director, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic
Christian Lequesne, Director, CERI-Sciences Po, Paris
Barbara Lippert, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Berlin
Vladimír Handl, Researcher, Institute of International Relations, Prague

16:00 - 16:15 Coffee break

16:15 - 17:30 Panel III: The United Kingdom as a Special Case? The British View

Chair: Lenka Pítrová, Director, Strategies and Institutional Department, Section for European Affairs, Office of the Government of the Czech Republic
William Paterson, Honorary Professor of German and European Politics, Aston Centre for Europe, Aston University, Birmingham
Thomas Raineau, Université Paris IV – Sorbonne, IRICE, Paris
Jan Váška, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague

Working language: English

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