How would Europe look today if there were no EU?
Programme
Wednesday, May 9th
10,30 - 14,00 - Registration - 1st floor
15,00 - 16,00 - Formal Opening: short speeches of welcome by the hosts (region, city, organizers)
Introduction by Seán Ó Riain, president of Eŭropa Esperanto-Unio
Historical section
16,00 - 16,30 - Thomas Jansen, former EPP general secretary:
16,30 - 17,00 - Božo Repe, professor at the University of Ljubljana:
Slovenia and the EU and discussion
17,00 - 17,30 - Seán Ó Riain, president of Eŭropa Esperanto-Unio, Irish diplomat
EU influence on the Northern Ireland peace process and discussion
17,30 - 17,45 - Coffee break
17,45 - 18,30 - Discussion on the historical perspectives of the EU
18,30 - 20,00 - Workshops on historical aspects of the theme: Situation simulation
Group A: EU general staff seeks a solution to a conflict between Greece and Turkey, which is escalating dangerously.
Group B: The French Government seeks a strategy to deal with the problem of young rioters, who have rebelled and been burning cars in various cities.
Group C: Press conference in which a representative of the European Court replies to questions on a Court decision that it is not discriminatory to require competence in English at the level of native speakers to work at the EU institutions.
Group D: Deals with one of the above themes or decides their own theme.
Thursday, May 10th
Political section
09,00 - 09,30 - Stjepan Mesić, former President of Croatia and Yugoslavia:
Does South-Eastern Europe have an alternative to the EU? and discussion
09,30 - 10,00 - Milan Kučan, former President of Slovenia:
10,00 - 10,30 - Coffee break
10,30 - 11,00 - Giorgio Rosetti, former Member of the European Parliament:
11,00 - 12,00 - Discussion on the political perspectives of the EU
12,00 - 13,30 - Workshops on political aspects of the theme: Situation simulation
Group A: Press conference – the EU President replies to journalists' queries on the acceptance by a democratically-elected government in an EU Member State of constitution which is contrary to the basic values, principles and treaties of the EU.
Group B: Discussion on possible EU-entry of their country between some who are passionately FOR or AGAINST EU-entry, and others who are not interested in politics.
Group C: The Flemish-Walloon negotiations aimed at constituting a new Belgian government.
Group D: Session of the European Court to discuss a concrete case where the principles of economic liberalism and basic human rights are in conflict.
13,45 - 15,15 - Lunch
Economic section
15,30 - 16,00 - Mladen Staničić, retired professor, Dag Hamarskjold University College for International Relations and Diplomacy, Zagreb:
16,00 - 16,30 - François Grin, professor at the University of Geneva:
Accounting for language dynamics in globalisation: can language economics help? and discussion
16,30 - 17,00 - Stefano Amadeo, professor at the Univeristy of Trieste:
17,00 - 18,00 - Discussion on the economic perspectives of the EU
18,00-19,00 - Round table public discussion with former presidents Stjepan Mesić and Milan Kučan, Thomas Jansen and Gianni de Michelis on the importance of the EU for the preservation of peace in Europe and the world – outside participants’ programme
18,30 - 20,00 - Workshops on economic aspects of the theme
Group A: Economists analyse the economic state of Germany in 2010 in a hypothetical situation whereby the EU was never founded and therefore Germany is not in the EU.
Group B: A European Parliament economic affairs committee seeks a strategy for economic relations with China.
Group C: Press conference – a member of the European Commission replies to questions on the theory and practice of the use of working languages in the EU institutions, on the economic aspects of multilingualism on EU language problems in general.
Group D: Discussion about recent developments and problems in EU Anti-Discrimination Law
Friday, May 11th
Human rights section
09,00 - 09,30 - Paolo Alessi, President of the Trieste UNESCO Centre:
Europe for the handicapped and discussion
09,30 - 10,00 - Zlatko Tišljar, Asociation for European consceusness, Maribor:
The link between languages and identity and discussion
10,00 - 10,30 - Antonio Cancian, Member of the European Parliament:
Religions and a European identity and discussion
10,30 - 11,15 - Discussion of all lectures of this session
11,15 - 13,30 - Closing plenary session to agree the conclusions of the conference:
Summing up by Seán Ó Riain, discussion and acceptance of conclusions
