CIAO DATE: 5/99

The Future of the European Union’s Common Foreign and Security Policy

September 24–25, 1998
Brussels

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Acknowledgments

 

Opening Session:

Enhancing Europe’s Global Role: The CFSP After Amsterdam
		Chair: Tom Spencer, Chair, European Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee An overview of the new Treaty Provisions covering CFSP John Palmer, Director, European Policy Centre, Brussels Can EU Development Assistance contribute to Peace and Security? Commissioner João de Deus Pinheiro The Council: Planning and Implementing CFSP Christian Kudlich, Director, Co-ordination and Analysis Unit, DG for External Relations, Council Secretariat The Italian Presidency of the WEU: How can the WEU support the CFSP? Ambassador Paolo Foresti, Permanent Representative of Italy to the WEU The Austrian Presidency of the EU: CFSP Policy Objectives Hubert Heiss, Minister, Permanent Representation of Austria to the EU The UK Presidency of the EU: Foreign Policy Achievements and Lessons for the Future Peter Ricketts, Deputy Political Director, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

 

Workshop 1:

Military Futures: Questions of Hard Security and Institutional Relations
		Chair: Alyson Bailes, Political Director, WEU The relationship between the EU, WEU and NATO Elie Marcuse, Political Affairs Division, NATO Johannes Swoboda, Austrian MEP Thierry Tardy, Institut de Relations Internationales et Stratégiques, Paris EU Defence Policy: Desirable, feasible, democratically accountable? Patricia Chilton, Manchester Metropolitan University Maj Britt Theorin, Swedish MEP Stelios Stavrides, University of Reading
The Security Implications of EU Enlargement
		Chair: Rebecca Johnson, The Acronym Institute EU Enlargement: How Will it Change EU Security and Defence Policy Making? Thomas Eckert, German delegation to the WEU Karen Smith, London School of Economics and Political Science Krister Bringeus, Director, Division for European Security Policy, Swedish Foreign Affairs Ministry The Effect of EU Enlargement on the Applicant States and their Neighbours Alexandra Laignel-Lavastine, Institut de Relations Internationales et Stratégiques, Paris Ognyan Minchev, Institute for Regional and International Studies, Sofia János Vándor, Hungarian Mission to the EU

 

Workshop 2:

EU Approaches to Regional Security
The Balkans
		Chair: Eric Remacle, Institute for European Studies, Université Libre de Bruxelles Pauline Neville-Jones, former Advisor to Carl Bildt, EU High Representative to Bosnia Sophia Clément, WEU Institute for Security Studies, Paris
The Russian Federation and the Commonwealth of Independent States
		Ambassador Vasilij Likhachev, Permanent Representative of Russia to the European Union Peter Truscott, British MEP, Vice-Chair, Security and Disarmarnent Sub-Committee
The Mediterranean
		Chair: Jannis Sakellariou, German MEP Jesús Núñez, Fundación Ortega y Gasset, Madrid Claire Spencer, Centre for Defence Studies, Kings College, London
The Middle East Peace Process
		Birchara Khader, Catholic University of Louvain Alain Gresh, Le Monde Diplomatique

 

Workshop 3:

EU Approaches to Conflict Prevention
		Chair: Lotte Leicht, Director of Human Rights Watch (Europe) The prospects for a coherent EU Conflict Prevention Policy Glenys Kinnock, British MEP An overview of EU policy tools and instruments Tim Hancock, Saferworld, London Improving the EU’s Policy Planning and Early Warning Capability David Nyheim, FEWER and International Alert, London The EU’s role in complex humanitarian emergencies Alberto Navarro, Director, ECHO The EU’s role in early warning and preventive diplomacy Fraser Cameron, European Commission, DG1A The role of NGOs and civil society in conflict prevention policies Francisco Rey, Spanish Red Cross and Peace Research Center (CIP), Madrid
		Chair: Bronwyn Brady, Independent Security Policy Analyst EU Code of Conduct on Arms Exports Geraldine O’Callaghan, British American Security Information Council, London EU Illicit Weapons Trafficking Programme Peter Saveiys, Office of Export Controls, Belgian Foreign Ministry Conflict Prevention Policy Instruments: Orienting development assistance to capacity building Brian Wood, Norwegian Initiative on Small Arms Transfers Destruction of surplus weapons and reintegration of demobilised forces Kiflemariam Gebrewold, Bonn International Centre for Conversion Strengthening border controls and police training Bernd Hemingway, European Commission public order programme in Albania

 

Brief Biographies of Speakers