EU-CONSENT: Wider Europe, Deeper Integration?

Where is the EU Heading? Future Developments and Reflections on Croatia

EU-CONSENT Project Results' Presentation Meeting
Zagreb, Croatia, 6 March 2009, 10:00 a.m. - 15:30 p.m.

Draft Programme

10:00 - 10:30

Welcome Addresses and Introduction

Dr Radovan Fuchs, State Secretary, Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia (tbc)

Mr Mirko Hempel, Head, FES Croatia

Mladen Staničić, PhD, Director, IMO

Dr Gunilla Herolf, Head, EU CONSENT Dissemination Activities, SIPRI, Sweden

Introduction to the EU-CONSENT Project and Meeting

10:30 - 12:30

PANEL I - EU Economic and Social Perspectives and Responses to Global Financial Crisis

Chair:
Dr Nevenka Čučković, Senior Research Fellow, IMO

EU-CONSENT Keynote Speakers:

Prof Iain Begg, London School of Economics (LSE), London, UK

Dr Felix Roth, Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Brussels, Belgium

Comments by:

Dr Krešimir Jurlin, Research Fellow, IMO, Zagreb, Croatia

Dr Sandra Švaljek, Director, Institute of Economics, Zagreb, Croatia

Dr Slavica Singer, Faculty of Economics, Osijek, Croatia

Mr Velimir Šonje, President of the Board of Directors, ICF Invest, Zagreb, Croatia

12:30 - 13:30

LUNCH

13:30 - 15:30

PANEL II - EU Institutional Reform: Impacts on Future Enlargement Policy and Croatia

Chair:
Dr Višnja Samardžija, Senior Research Fellow, IMO

EU-CONSENT Keynote Speakers:

Prof Edward Best, Head of Unit, European Institute of Public Administration in Maastricht (EIPA), Maastricht, Netherlands

Dr Gunilla Herolf, Senior Researcher, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Stockholm, Sweden

Comments by:

Dr Igor Vidačak, Head, Government Office for NGOs, Croatia

Prof Siniša Rodin, Faculty of Law, Zagreb, Croatia

Prof Nenad Zakošek, Faculty of Political Science, Zagreb, Croatia

Dr Mladen Staničić, Director, IMO, Zagreb, Croatia

15:30 - 15:45

CONCLUDING REMARKS

Dr Gunilla Herolf, EU-CONSENT, Senior Researcher, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Stockholm, Sweden

Dr Nevenka Čučković, Senior Research Fellow, IMO, Zagreb, Croatia

Contact

Valentina Vučković, IMO, Ul. Lj. F. Vukotinovića 2, P.O. Box 303, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia; tel.: +385-1-4877474; fax: +385-1-4828361; e-mail: valentina@irmo.hr