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Changes in Germany, Changes in Europe
Warsaw, October 5-6, 2006
Conference Program
Thursday, October 5th 2006
Welcome: Aleksander Smolar, Stefan Batory Foundation, Stephan Raabe, Konrad Adenauer Foundation
Opening Speech: Władysław Bartoszewski, former Minister of Foreign Affairs
Session I: Germany’s approach to the world, to Europe, and to its neighbours
- future of the Common Foreign and Security Policy
- prospects of EU’s further enlargement (Turkey, Western Balkans, Ukraine)
- role of the European Neighbourhood Policy
- European community and Euro-Atlantic community
- relations with Russia
Chair: Adam D. Rotfeld, former Minister of Foreign Affairs
Panelists: Christoph Bertram, University of John Hopkins, Thomas Gutschker, journalist, Rheinischer Merkur, Hans-Urlich Klose, MP in Bundestag (SPD), Karl Lamers, former MP in Bundestag (CDU)
Comments: Marek Cichocki, Natolin European Center, Roman Kuźniar, Polish Institute of International Affairs
Session II: Internal developments in Germany and in the European Union
- the European socio-economic model
- economical and social reforms
- EU cohesion and the solidarity principle
- demographic problems, integration and assimilation, multiculturalism an multi-ethnicity
Chair: Dariusz Rosati, former Minister of Foreign Affairs
Panelists: Marie-Luise Dött, MP Bundestag (CDU), Meinhard Miegel, Bonn Institute for Economic and Social Research, Claus Offe, Humboldt University, Norbert Walter, Deutsche Bank Research
Comments: Janusz Jankowiak, Polish Business Roundtable, Irena Lipowicz, University of Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński
Friday, October 6th 2006
Session III: Germany’s identity and memory
- Germany’s remembrance, remembrance of the other nations and the need for European integration
- individualization or re-nationalization of the national memory
- memory of the detriments and atrocity
- attitude towards the nazism and communism in German’s memory
- the role of the state in creating historic memory
Chair: Stefan Meller, fmr. Minister of Foreign Affairs
Panelists: Dan Diner, Hebrew University, Norbert Frei, Jena University, Ute Frevert, Yale University, Joachim Gauck, Against Forgetting – For Democracy Association, Helga Hirsch, journalist
Comments: Adam Krzemiński, Polityka weekly, Kazmierz Wóycicki, Institute of National Remembrance
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