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Annual Report 2006

International Cooperation Program

The aim of the program is to support active EU policies towards new neighbors in the East, strengthen civil society in Central and Eastern Europe, initiate as well as participate in the debate on international issues in Poland and on the European forum.

In 2006, the situation in the countries of Eastern Europe was increasingly diverse, as demonstrated by the elections in Belarus and Ukraine. On the one hand, we witnessed presidential elections in Belarus that took place amid violations of the fundamental rules of democracy. On the other hand, we had fair parliamentary elections in Ukraine that demonstrated stability of the democratic changes initiated by the Orange Revolution. The picture of the situation in Eastern Europe was completed by growing autocratic tendencies in Russia that manifested themselves i.a. by the new law on non-governmental organizations that limited the freedom of their operations. The foreign policy of Russia, both toward CIS countries and the European Union, was increasingly assertive. Inside the European Union a crisis of the constitutional treaty continued. In many member states a resistance toward further enlargement of the Community has been growing.

Trying to address the above challenges, we focused our efforts in 2006 on supporting pro-democratic tendencies in the countries of our eastern neighbors and on advocating for a common EU policy toward those countries based on the concept of a friendly border and good neighborhood. Such were the aims of the projects of experience sharing with Ukrainian centers of European information and representatives of the Ukrainian public administration, the Polish-German expert seminar on the European Neighborhood Policy, conferences, discussions and meetings in several capitals of Europe during which we presented recommendations and propositions for a common EU policy toward Belarus, as well as actions geared towards the liberalization of the visa policy of the Community toward citizens of Eastern Europe. An important addition to our actions in this field was the recruitment of independent observers and the monitoring of elections in Belarus, Ukraine, and Tajikistan.

In view of the deteriorating official relations between Poland and Russia, the hostile rhetoric of the administrations of both countries, and the rapid decline of the number of informal contacts and cooperation of both societies, we decided to undertake activities that may contribute to the enlivening of interest in Russia in wider circles of the Polish society and to avert the return of old bias and stereotypes. With this in mind, we organized two international conferences: on modern Russia, with the participation of outstanding Russian and Western experts on Russian affairs, and on Russian-Ukrainian relations and their influence on the policy of Ukraine toward the Union, with the participation of politicians and experts from Russia, Poland, and Ukraine. The latter was accompanied by workshops for young political scientists from the three countries. A third international conference, devoted to the relations with our Western neighbor, presented the directions of German domestic and foreign policy in the context of the changes after the 2005 election and discussion in the European Union.

Our activities in 2006 were carried out in the framework of the following projects:

New European Union and Ukraine

The aim of the project we had run since 2002 was to evaluate relations between the European Union and Ukraine, analyze the influence EU enlargement on these relations and recommend possible strategies and solutions for the relations between the new EU and Ukraine.

We continued our efforts aimed to promote the idea of European integration in Ukraine. With financial support from the Foreign Ministry and in cooperation with the Office of the Committee for European Integration we carried out a series of seminars, conferences, study visits and meetings under the common name Ukraine on the path toward EU. We organized an eight-day study visit in Poland for employees of Ukrainian centers of European information and a three-day conference in Kyiv for representatives of 30 centers on European education. During the study visit our guests took part in a three-day training session on the most important aspects of functioning of the EU, run by employees of the Office of the Committee for European Integration. They also attended a series of meetings with Polish organizations experienced in implementation of European information and educational projects, including regional centers for European information in Białystok and Płock. In a conference organized in cooperation with the Ukrainian Renaissance Foundation in Kyiv 30 representatives of Ukrainian European information centers learnt about Polish experiences in running EU information campaigns and about strategic planning of European information centers' operations.

Another element of this activity focused on experience sharing between representatives of Polish and Ukrainian public administration in charge of Judiciary and Internal Affairs and Competition Policy. During two meetings in Warsaw and one in Kyiv we organized trainings for public officers as well as consultations of legal acts pertaining to harmonization of Ukrainian law to acquis communautaire in the above fields. In October, a group of officers from Ukraine met their Polish colleagues in the Ministries of Internal Affairs and Administration, Foreign Affairs, Economy, Finance, and the Office for the Committee of European Integration, Foreigners and Repatriation Office, and the Headquarters of the Border Guard. As a result of the meetings, a set of recommendations were developed for the implementation of the EU-Ukraine Action Plan. The recommendations, written and published in the Ukrainian version, were distributed through Ukrainian participants of the project to all interested parties in Kyiv. In November, during two conferences in Kyiv, the participants of the project discussed Polish experiences of harmonizing the rules of public aid to the requirements of the EU laws and on Polish migration policy. The last meeting summarizing the project was held in Warsaw in mid-December.

Moreover, in the framework of New European Union and Ukraine project we organized the following:

Ukraine: how to live with Russia? Russia: how to live with Ukraine?

Immediately after the elections to the Ukrainian Supreme Council we organized a conference on the current state and future of Ukrainian-Russian relations. The panelists included: Anna Górska (Eastern Studies Center), Andriy Yermolayev (Center for Social Studies Sofija), Irina Kobrinskaya (Institute for World Economy and International Relations), Oles Lisnychuk (Institute for Political and National Research), Maksim Meyer (Duma Committee on CIS), Vladimir Milov (Energy Policy Institute), Andrzej Nowak (Jagiellonian University), Andrei Riabov (Moscow Carnegie Center), Adam Daniel Rotfeld (Polish Institute for International Affairs), Alexander Sushko (Center for Peace, Conversion and Foreign Policy), Olena Witer (Energy Policy Council), Konstantin Zatulin (CIS Countries Institute, Duma deputy). The conference was attended by some 130 people.

Workshops for young researchers from Poland, Russia, and Ukraine

Together with the Moscow Carnegie Center and the International RenaissanceFoundation from Kyiv we organized workshops for 13 young researchers from Poland, Russia and Ukraine devoted to the political and socio-economic problems in Eastern Europe, with particular emphasis on Ukraine-Russia relations and the European integration context. Workshops were run by: Jan Hofmokl (Office for the Committee of European Integration), Andrei Riabov and Sam Greene (Carnegie Center), Grzegorz Gromadzki and Wojciech Konończuk (Batory Foundation).

A new impulse for the European Neighborhood Policy

Some 30 experts and politicians from Germany and Poland took part in the seminar organized in cooperation with the German Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik. Among the participants was Günter Gloser, the deputy foreign minister of Germany. The participants discussed the future of the EU's policy toward eastern neighbors.

Publications

In 2006, we published the following titles in cooperation with our partners:

• Ukraine: how to live with Russia? Russia: how to live with Ukraine? Ukrainian-Russian relations in 2006 and the nearest future
• Questionable Achievement: EC-Ukraine Visa Facilitation Agreement

European choice for Belarus

The project, conducted since 2002, focuses on consolidating independent Belarusian pro-reform circles to build common democratic foundations in their country and to introduce to the international debate an issue of EU policy towards Belarus. In 2006, a year important because of the Belarusian presidential election, we organized a number of conferences and discussions in Warsaw, Brussels, Prague, Budapest, Bratislava, and Berlin. The goal was to stimulate the Polish and European discussion on the situation in Belarus and the possible changes in the country.

Belarus and its neighbors

In cooperation with the Center for International Relations, we organized a conference on the situation in Belarus and the perspectives for democratic change in the country. Among the panelists were: Jan Henrik Amberg (Foreign Affairs Ministry of Sweden), Bronisław Komorowski (deputy speaker of the Parliament, Warsaw), Ake Peterson (OSCE in Minsk), Claude Veron-Reville (a representative of the European Commission), Paweł Zalewski (chairman of the Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee, Warsaw), as well as Polish, Belarusian and Russian political scientists and representatives of Polish non-government organizations. Alexander Milinkevich, the presidential candidate of the united Belarusian opposition, was a special guest of the conference. More than 170 people took part in the meeting.

Belarus before presidential elections: what should Europe do?

The participants of the debate on the situation in Belarus before the presidential election and the EU policy toward Belarus included: Janusz Onyszkiewicz (vice-president of the European Parliament), Pirkka Tapiola (adviser to Javier Solana, the Secretary-General of the Council of the European Union), Lubos Vesely (International Affairs Association, Prague), Grzegorz Gromadzki (Batory Foundation), Agnieszka Komorowska (Batory Foundation), Andre Wilkens (Open Society Institute, Brussels). During the meeting we presented the report Actively and Jointly. EU toward Belarus prepared in cooperation with the International Affairs Association from Prague. The debate was organized together with the Center for European Policy Studies (CEPS) from Brussels and the Brussels office of the Open Society Institute. Some 50 people took part in the debate.

Awakening? Before the presidential elections in Belarus

Ten days before the presidential elections in Belarus, we organized a discussion with Belarusian experts and journalists, as well as analysts from Poland and the Czech Republic. The panelists: Svetlana Kalinkina (Narodnaya Volya), Ales Michalevich (BNF party, Association of Local Councillors, Minsk), Agata Wierzbowska-Miazga (Center for Eastern Studies, Warsaw), Lubos Vesely (Association for International Affairs, Prague), Ihar Lalkou (Belarusian Schuman Association, Minsk), Przemysław Żurawski vel Grajewski (University of Lodz) discussed the current situation in Belarus, possible development of political events and the EU's and EU member states' policy towards regime in Minsk. Fifty-five people participated in the debate.

After presidential elections in Belarus

Several days after presidential elections in Belarus, when the demonstrations of democratic opposition in Minsk were still in place, we organized a conference devoted to the evaluation of the elections and electoral campaign. The meeting was attended by: Siarhiey Alfier (Center for Constitutionalism and Comparative Legal Studies, Minsk), Andres Herkel (deputy to the Estonian Parliament, head of the commission on Belarus in the Council of Europe), Ales Dzikavitsky (Radio Svaboda, Warsaw office), Olga Karach (independent local deputy from Vitebsk), Wojciech Stanisławski (OSCE election observer, Center for Eastern Studies, Warsaw), Yaroslav Romanchuk (Strategy Analytical Center, Minsk), Adam Eberhardt (Polish Institute of International Affairs), Robert Tyszkiewicz (leader of the Parliamentary Group for Solidarity with Belarus, Warsaw) and Paweł Kazanecki (Eastern European Democratic Centre). 65 people attended the conference.

Belarus after the election. What is the future of Lukashenka regime?

The meeting organized in cooperation with the Association for International Affairs from Prague was attended by representatives of the Czech Foreign Ministry, experts from Belarus, the Czech Republic, and Poland. Some 30 individuals took part in the presentation of the report prepared by the Batory Foundation and Association for International Affairs.

Belarus after the election. What is the future of the Lukashenka regime?

Together with the International Centre for Democratic Transition from Budapest, the Association for International Affairs from Prague and the Czech Centre in Budapest we organized a seminar on the situation in Belarus after March presidential election, the EU policy towards this country as well as Belarusian-Russian relations. The meeting was hold in form of an open discussion and views exchange between experts from Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic. The panelists included: Mátyás Eörsi (Hungarian Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee), Luboą Veselý (Association for International Affairs, Istvan Gyarmati (International Centre for Democratic Transition), Grzegorz Gromadzki, Agnieszka Komorowska, Wojciech Konończuk (Batory Foundation). During the meeting a report on Belarus prepared by the Batory Foundation and Association for International Affairs was presented. About 30 people participated in the seminar.

EU and Belarus six months after the presidential election

Together with the Slovak Association for Foreign Policy and the Czech Association for International Affairs we organized a seminar on the situation in Belarus after the presidential elections, the EU policy toward the country, and Belarusian-Russian relations. Some 20 experts from Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Poland took part in the discussion.

Publications

In 2006, in cooperation with our partners, we published the following titles:

• Belarus before and after March 19 — possible scenarios
• After presidential elections in Belarus
• Belarus after elections. What is the future of Lukashenka regime?

Friendly EU border

In the framework of the project carried out since 2002 we have been undertaking activities aimed at liberalizing the visa policy of Poland and other EU member states towards citizens of Eastern Europe and at improving the standards of border services on the EU's eastern frontier. Together with a group of non-governmental organizations from Poland, Russia, Ukraine and Belarus we conducted monitoring of border crossings of the enlarged EU to register the behavior of border crossing officers toward citizens from outside the Community (2002-2003), the monitoring of the Polish visa policy (2003-2004) and the monitoring of visa issuing procedures by EU member states to citizens of Eastern Europe (2005-2006). We published the results of the monitoring effort in reports distributed in Poland, EU states, Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia. The findings of the reports and the resulting recommendations are used to advocate the implementation of policy of easy access and affordable entry visas for EU Eastern neighbors.

In 2006 we completed the monitoring effort of the visa policy of eight selected countries of the European Union (Belgium, Finland, France, Lithuania, Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Britain) toward citizens of Belarus, Ukraine, Russia and Moldova. Based on the analysis of surveys performed in the autumn of 2005 among 1300 applicants requesting visas at 31 EU consulates in Chisinau, Kyiv, Minsk and Moscow we prepared a report Visa Policies of the European Union Member States with the comparative study of the visa policies of the individual states of the Schengen area and the detailed description of the difficulties encountered by visa applicants. We also produced a policy paper with recommendations by experts, lawyers and human rights activists on the most desirable, friendly and consistent model of EU visa policy. The report was completed just as the EU began discussions of the revision of some of the Schengen legislation (Common Consular Instructions) and became a solid basis for the advocacy efforts aimed at the facilitation of visa procedures and practices of EU countries toward citizens of Eastern Europe. Conclusions and recommendations from the research were disseminated at the public conferences and seminars, also among experts, politicians and officers in charge of formulation and implementation of the visa policy. Both publications were presented at the following venues: April 12 at the Batory Foundation, June 9 at the Challenge project conference in Paris, June 21 at a conference in Prague, June 26 in Minsk, July 3 in Kyiv, June 4 in Simferopol, July 20 in Odessa, July 21 in Lviv, July 25 in Chisinau, September 7 at the Economic Forum in Krynica, October 6 at the Challenge project conference in Brussels, November 28 at the European Parliament in Brussels, and December 1 at the European Academy in Trier, Germany. Some of our recommendations were reflected in the new regulations of the European Visa Policy, the so-called Community Code on Visas.

The project's participants included: Collegium Civitas and the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights from Warsaw, the Institute for Public Policy from Moldova, the Moscow Bureau for the Defense of Human Rights, the Ukrainian Center for Peace and Conversion of Foreign Policy, as well as experts and academics from the European Union: Jovita Pranevičiute of the Vilnius University, Timo Hellenberg, Ph.D., from Aleksanteri Institute in Finland, Ondrej Soukup of the Association for International Affairs in the Czech Republic, and a group of experts from the Federal Trust in Britain. We carried out advocacy efforts for the facilitation of the EU's visa procedures together with the project's partners: the Moldavian Institute for Public Policy, the Ukrainian Center for Peace and Conversion of Foreign Policy, and an NGO from Belarus.

Publications

In 2006, in cooperation with our partners, we published:

• Visa Policies of the European Union Member States — Monitoring Report
• Neighbors and Visas. Recommendations for a Friendly European Union Visa Policy

International election monitoring

Observation missions are an important factor for the development of democracy, greater transparency of the public life and the strengthening of the role of the civil society. The Batory Foundation has for years been engaged in sending election monitors, recruiting i.a. polling supervisors for OSCE missions and taking part in the preparation of the Polish Observation Mission for the presidential election in Ukraine in 2004.

In 2006, in cooperation with the Polish Foreign Ministry, we recruited observers for the OSCE mission to the presidential elections in Belarus and presidential elections in Ukraine, as well as for the observation mission for the elections in Tajikistan. It was our ambition to make the recruitment process as transparent and effective as possible, opening it for candidates from outside the small circle of the public administration, in particular for young ideological volunteers, and basing it on objective selection criteria. Among 500 candidates who applied in response to the nationwide ads we selected 40 short-term and four long-term observers for the monitoring of Belarus elections. Another 60 people from the ranking group were invited to take part in the OSCE mission for parliamentary elections in Ukraine.

In the autumn of 2006, from a grant by Foreign Ministry we organized our own observation mission for presidential elections in Tajikistan (November 6, 2006). The mission was the Polish contribution to the realization of OSCE member obligations (monitoring of the development of democracy in member states). Election and pre-election observation was carried out in two Tajik cities — Dushanbe and Khujand — and in their municipal areas. Twenty-two monitors took part in the mission, including two long-term observers. Our observers reported repeated violations of the adopted election ordinance including badly prepared lists of voters, proxy or family voting, inappropriate voter identification, improper ballot issuance procedures, inaccurate vote counts and wrong filling of protocols by election commissions. We summarized the monitoring experience with the report in Polish, English and Russian, published on the Batory Foundation website.

Publications

In 2006 we published the following titles:

• Polish Observation Mission. Tajikistan Presidential Elections 6 November 2006 — Preliminary Assessment
• Polish Observation Mission. Tajikistan Presidential Elections 6 November 2006 — Final Assessment

Displaced cultural property

For the past four years we have been operating a project devoted to missing or displaced cultural assets, which in the result of wars and border shifts were moved to the territory of other states. We wanted to stimulate the public debate on this controversial problem that has not been discussed for years, and to lead to the development of a common position of Central and Eastern European countries on the matter. In 2006, we published a recommendation on the Polish-Ukrainian cooperation in the field of cultural artifacts and claims and organized two public debates on the common heritage of Poland and Ukraine. We also organized an international conference on the problem of displaced cultural property in Central Europe in the years 2000-2006 and published a volume on the property restitution and cultural assets in Poland and the situation in neighboring countries.

Poland — Ukraine. Common heritage, Polish heritage, Ukrainian heritage

The Polish-Ukrainian meeting was devoted to the problem of common heritage in mutual relations, the definition of the term in Poland and Ukraine, its presence in the public sphere, debates of historians and the work of institutions that care for cultural property in both countries. The meeting was attended by: Dorota Folga-Januszewska (National Museum, Warsaw), Natalia Jakowenko (Kyiv-Mohylev Academy), Ewa Klekot (Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology Institute of the Warsaw University), Konstantin Novokhatski (State Archive Committee of Ukraine), Władysław Stępniak (Central Directorate of State Archives, Warsaw), Janusz Tazbir (History Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences), Borys Woźnicki (Lviv Arts Gallery). The discussion was moderated by: Bogumiła Berdychowska (Polish-Ukrainian Forum, Warsaw).

Lviv's heritage

Between Russia and Germany. The problem of displaced cultural property in Central Europe in the years 2000-2006

The conference was devoted to the current fate of the cultural property that was robbed in Europe in the years 1933-1945, starting from the takeover of power by the Nazis in Germany through the Second World War to the takeover of power by communist parties in Central and Eastern Europe. Conference was attended by ministers of cultures, experts in museum management, historians, art historians, lawyers, representatives of organizations and institutions dealing with property restitution and independent researchers from Europe, the U.S. and Israel. The discussion pertained to the goods that were the state property, as well as the property of social associations, churches and religious communes, and private individuals.. Norman Palmer from Law at King's College, London delivered introductory lecture. The Conference was organized in four sessions:

1. Problem of claims in international relations in Central and Eastern Europe. Moderation: Prof. Władysław Stępniak (Central Directorate of State Archives, Warsaw). Panelists: Konstantin Akinsha (correspondent of the ARTnews magazine, Budapest), Gábor Galik (Culture and Education Ministry, Budapest), Pavel Jirásek (Culture Ministry, Prague), Serhyj Kot (Center for the Research of Problems of Return and Restitution of National Cultural Property of the National Academy of Science, Kyiv), Prof. Wojciech Kowalski (Foreign Affairs Ministry, Warsaw), Gilbert Lupfer (State Arts Collection, Dresden).
2. Problem of property restitution in Central Europe, property of churches and religious denominations. Moderation: Nawojka Cieślińska-Lobkowicz (Forum for Displaced Cultural Property at the Arts Historians Association, Warsaw-Munich). Panelists: Regine Dehnel (independent researcher, Berlin), Dorota Folga-Januszewska (National Museum, Warsaw), Attila Etian Horváth (Jewish Joint Distribution Committee — JDC, Budapest), Miloą Hoąek (attorney, Prague), Jan Kudrna (Charles University, Prague), Elena-Doina Pungâ (Hyperyon University, Bucharest).
3. Property of the victims of the Holocaust — legal solutions and their practical functioning in the years 2000-2006.Moderation:Prof. Feliks Tych (Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw). Panelists: Nawojka Cieślińska-Lobkowicz (Forum for Displaced Cultural Property at the Arts Historians Association, Warsaw-Munich), Ekaterina Geniyeva, (All-Russian Library of Foreign Literature Rudomino, Moscow), Charles A. Goldstein (Commission for Art Recovery — CAR, New York), Ágnes Peresztegi (attorney, Budapest), Anne Webber (Commission for Looted Art in Europe, London).
4. Cultural property, ownership and history. Moderation: Prof. Włodzimierz Borodziej (Warsaw University, Warsaw). Panelists: Wesley A. Fisher (Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany — Claims Conference, New York), Prof. Jerzy Holzer (Political Studies Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw), Robert Kostro (Polish History Museum, Warsaw), Prof. Alvydas Nikľentaitis (Lithuanian History Institute, Vilnius).

Publications:

In 2006, we issued the following publications:

• Private property and public good. Ownership problems and cultural assets
• Cultural property. Cooperation and the problem of claims in Polish-Ukrainian relations. Recommendations.

International conferences

Putin's Russia

The aim of the conference was to make the Polish public more familiar with the most important problems and challenges facing Russia today. The subject of the meeting focused primarily on internal matters that are seldom discussed during public debates in Poland, as well as on Russia's role in the European and global perspective. The conference was open with a speech by Vladimir Ryzhkov, Russian Duma deputy. In three consecutive panels of the conference invited guests — outstanding experts on Russia, from Russia, Finland, France, Poland, and Britain — discussed about power in Russia, stability of the Russian political and economic system, condition of Russian society and relations between the authority and the society, Russia's place in the world and the definition of the modern Russian identity.

The panelists included: Adam Michnik (Gazeta Wyborcza daily) — moderator, Stanislav Belkovsky, Council on National Strategy, Moscow), Włodzimierz Marciniak (Political Studies Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw), Dmitry Oreshkin (Mercator Analytical Group, Moscow), Lilia Shevtsova (Moscow Carnegie Center), Andrzej Rychard (Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences) — moderator, Alexandr Auzan (Social Deal National Project Institute, Moscow), Igor Klyamkin (Liberal Mission Foundation, Moscow), Arseny Roginskiy (Memorial Association, Moscow), Aleksander Smolar (Stefan Batory Foundation President) — moderator, Yuriy Fedorov (Chatham House, Britain), Marie Mendras (CNRS, Science Po, Paris) and Arkady Moshes (Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Helsinki). Panelists' statements became the basis of articles prepared for the book Putin's Empire to be published in 2007. The conference was attended by some 230 people.

Changes in Germany, Changes in Europe

During a two-day conference organized in cooperation with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, invited guests — Polish and German policymakers and scholars — discussed Germany of 2006 under the rule of the new grand coalition. What kind of Europe Germany wants to build? What place in Europe the Germans see for themselves, their neighbors and partners? The conference opened by Władysław Bartoszewski, former foreign minister of Poland, was divided into three sessions:

1. Germany toward the world, Europe and neighbors. Moderator: Adam D. Rotfeld (former foreign minister of Poland), panelists: Christoph Bertram, PhD ( John Hopkins University), Thomas Gutschker, PhD (Rheinischer Merkur daily), Hans-Urlich Klose (Bundestag deputy, SPD), Karl Lamers (former CDU spokesman for international affairs), commentary: Marek Cichocki, PhD (European Center Natolin), Prof. Roman Kuźniar (Polish Institute for International Affairs).
2. Internal change in Germany and the European Union. Moderator: Prof. Dariusz Rosati (former foreign minister of Poland), Panelists: Marie-Luise Dött (Bundestag deputy, CDU), Prof. Meinhard Miegel (Economy and Society Institute), Prof. Claus Offe, (Humboldt University), Prof. Norbert Walter (Deutsche Bank), Commentary: Janusz Jankowiak (Polish Business Roundtable), Prof. Irena Lipowicz (Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University).
3. Identity and memory of Germany. Moderator: Prof. Stefan Meller (former foreign minister of Poland). Panelists: Prof. Dan Diner (Hebrew University), Prof. Norbert Frei (Jena University), Prof. Ute Frevert (Yale University), Joachim Gauck (Gegen Vergessen-Für Demokratie Association), Helga Hirsch (journalist). Commentary: Piotr Buras, PhD (Center of International Relations, Warsaw), Adam Krzemiński (Polityka weekly), Kazimierz Wóycicki, PhD (National Remembrance Institute).

The conference was attended by 170 participants: politicians, experts, scholars, journalists and government officials.

Partnership projects

Apart from running our own projects, we took part in efforts made in coalitions with other organizations:

Polish NGO Abroad

Since 2001 the Foundation has been involved in the work of a coalition of Polish NGOs operating outside Poland. The goals of the Polish NGO Abroad group include: exchange of information, cooperation with public administration, participation in shaping and implementing Polish aid policy, cooperation with related associations in other states, dissemination of information about the activity of Polish NGOs Abroad and garnering public support for their activities.

In 2006, the Foreign Group that comprises more than 40 organizations cooperated with the Foreign Affairs Ministry on the development of the strategy for the Polish development aid policy for 2007-2011 and continued its information effort on the work of Polish NGOs outside the country by publishing a special CD-ROM. It also helped NGOs from Bulgaria and Romania create similar platforms by sharing Poland's experiences.

Project Challenge

Since November 2004, the Foundation has participated in the international project Challenge. The Changing Landscape of Liberty and Security in Europe, financed from the EU's Sixth Framework Program. The project is carried out by a consortium of 21 partner organizations cooperating in 17 thematic areas devoted to various security policy aspects and their influence on civic freedoms. Project-related activities include scientific research and promotional campaigns. In its framework, the Batory Foundation conducts promotional activities of the EU border monitoring project and offers expert analysis on migration issues. During a seminar organized by the Utrecht University on June 2, 2006, we presented a paper on institutional cooperation on border issues in Poland. As part of the conference organized by Center for International Studies and Research (CERI) in Paris on June 8-9, 2006, we presented the results of the our EU border monitoring project. A representative of the Foundation served as a commentator during a workshop on EU borders organized by the Center for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels on October 6-7, 2006.

Program was financed from grants by the Open Society Institute, the Polish Foreign Ministry, the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Center for European Policy Studies from Brussels, Center of Liberal Strategies from Sofia and the Ford Foundation.

Program costs

Grants: PLN 86 600
Implementation of projects: PLN 1 515 336,06
TOTAL: PLN 1 601 936,06

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