Minister of European Affairs, Bulgaria
György SCHÖPFLIN Member of the European Parliament

2:00 p.m. SOLIDARITY TOWARDS NEW MEMBERS

Chair
Tibor PALÁNKAI Professor, Corvinus University

Keynote address
Ivo SLOSARCIK Professor, Charles University, Prague

Discussants
Irena MLADENOVA Director, Economic Policy Institute, Sofia
Neven MIMICA Chairman, Parliamentary Committee for European Integration, Zagreb

Comments
István SZENT-IVÁNYI Member of the European Parliament
Erhard BUSEK Special Co-ordinator, Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe

3:30 p.m. Coffee break

4:00 p.m. THE EFFECTS OF FURTHER ENLARGEMENTS

Chair
László CSABA Professor, CEU

Keynote address
Meltem Sadiye MUFTULER BAC Professor, Sabanci University, Istanbul

Discussants
Anne WEYEMBERGH Professor, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Uwe PUETTER Professor, CEU

Comments
Ahmet EVIN Professor, Sabanci University, Istanbul
Elmar BROK Member of the European Parliament

6:00 p.m. CLOSING SESSION

Summary of the conference and further actions
Péter BALÁZS

6 : 30 p.m. RECEPTION

   

 

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La place et le rôle de l’Europe centrale et orientale au sein de la politique de sécurité de l’UE

qui se tiendra le

Vendredi 27 janvier 2006

ŕ partir de 10h00

Dans les locaux de

l'Institut Français de Budapest

1er étage dans la salle de la Téléthčque

(Fö u. 17. 1011 Budapest)

  

Közép-kelet Európa helye és szerepe az EU biztonságpolitikájában

című rendezvényén, amely

2006. január 27-én (péntek)

10 órakor

lesz a budapesti Francia Intézetben (Bp. II.ker Fő u. 17.),
az első emeleten található „thélétheque”-ben.
 

Les langues de la conférence seront le français et le hongrois, avec interprétation.

Tolmácsolás biztosított

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The CEU Center for EU Enlargement Studies (CENS) cordially invites you
to the following public lecture:

*EU Cohesion Policy - the Hungarian Experience"
presented by
Péter Heil, Vice President of the National Development Office, Hungary
Chair: Péter Balázs, Director of CENS
on Friday, January 20, 2006., 1.00 p.m.
CEU, Nador u. 9., Popper Room

Since 2004, Hungary has been the beneficiary of the EU Structural and
Cohesion Funds. The first three years of membership is a transitory
period. The National Development Plan (NDP) is the first of its kind in
this country, and has a smaller budget, than some of those in the old
Member States. The institutional system is also in its infancy.
For the next planning period (2007-2013), however, Hungary is a player
with equal rights. The performance indicators of the first NDP are
encouraging, and so is the European Council's decision on the next budget.
What is the greatest challenge for the use of EU funds and what is
Hungary's strategy?

Péter Heil is the Vice President of the National Development Office. He
is a trained economist, studied in Budapest, Heidelberg and Oxford, and
holds a PhD in international relations.

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1 Third Annual Graduate Student Conference, University of Pittsburg

The University of Pittsburgh’s Graduate Organization for the Study of
Europe and Central Asia, in cooperation with the Center for Russian and East European Studies, invites fellow graduate students working on related topics from all disciplines to submit abstracts for our Third Annual Graduate Student Conference: IDEA EXCHANGE - Mediums and Methods of Communication in Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia.  We encourage a broad range of approaches,from social science and humanities to law and public policy, as well as a diverse set of topics to be explored in accordance with the main goal of this conference:  to stimulate interdisciplinary debates and the exchange of ideas.

Deadline for submission of abstracts:
DECEMBER 15, 2005

Visit our website:  www.pitt.edu/~sorc/goseca

Contact us:  gosecaconference@yahoo.com

University of Pittsburgh, February 24-26, 2006

In the histories of Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia, countless social and political upheavals have been articulated through, if not facilitated by, a variety of communication mediums and methods.  The uses of various modes of communication played a critical role in the collapse of state socialism and in the later reconstruction of new political and social regimes.  In the sixteen years since, the exchange of ideas and the dissemination of knowledge through practices of communication continue to be of vital importance to political engagement, cultural _expression, arts, sciences, and the creation of novel social orders.

This conference will explore questions related to the historical and
contemporary impact of different mediums and methods of communication in Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia.  We find it useful to adopt an inclusive understanding of mediums and methods that refers equally to venues for idea exchange, channels for the transmission of information, means through which communication is generated and even arenas for public debates and the constitution of civic initiatives.