International Conference As at 5 Aug. 2002

The Future of Europe: Views from Outside Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 11th-12th November 2002 International Conference organised by the Instituto de Estudos Estrategicos e Internacionais and co-sponsored by the NATO Office of Information and Press The XX Lisbon International Conference will focus on the major topics of the current "European debate: the parallel enlargement of the European Union and NATO, as well as the institutional reforms made necessary. The main focus will be to understand how these changes and the debate are perceived outside the European continent, namely by Europe's closest Mediterranean neighbours and in the Americas. The Lisbon International Conference is sponsored by the Lisbon City Council, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and NATO's International Secretariat. Tentative Programme Monday, 11th November 2002 09:00 Opening Session Jose Calvet de Magalhães, President, Institute for Strategic and International Studies, Lisbon Pedro Santana Lopes, Mayor of Lisbon Antonio Martins da Cruz, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Lisbon 09:30 Enlargement of the European Union and the priorities of the Convention Chair : Jose Luis da Cruz Vilaça, Member of the board, IEEI, Lisbon Mário Telò, ULB Vitor Martins, Member of the board, IEEI, Lisbon Guilherme d'Oliveira Martins, MP, Lisbon Carlos Costa Neves, Secretary of State for European Affairs, Lisbon 11:00 Coffee-Break 11:30 An enlarged NATO after the agreement with Russia Chair: Carlos Caspar, Universidade Lusíada, Lisbon Pierre Hassner, Paris Jamie Shea, Nato, Brussels Mart Laar, former Estonian Prime Minister 14:30 The future of Europe seen from outside Chair: Nicola de Santis, Nato, Brussels Fouad Ammor, GERM, Rabat Mohamed Mustafa, ACPS, Amman Boutros Boutros-Gali, former Secretary General of the United Nations, Cairo 16:00 Coffee-Break 16:30 European foreign, security and defence policy Chair: Maria do Rosário de Moraes Vaz, IEEI, Lisbon Ahmed Ghozali, former Algerian Prime Minister, Algiers Joseph Nye, Harvard University Gilberto Dupas, Institute for International Economic Studies, Sao Paulo Rockwel Schnabel, Ambassador of the United States to the European Union, Brussels Tuesday, 12th November 2002 09:30 The fight against terrorism: an assessment Chair: Nuno Severiano Teixeira, Universidade Nova de Lisboa Roula Khalaf, Financial Times, London Ryad Malki, Panorama, Jerusalem Edward Kaufman, Truman Institute, Jerusalem Hebrew University Ian Lesser, RAND, Washington 11:00 Café 11:30 Perceptions of change: public opinion and the press Chair: Fifi Benaboud, Centre Norte-Sul, Lisbon Panel of American, North African and candidate countries journalist 14:30 Identity and the future of open societies Chairman: Teresa de Sousa, Público, Lisbon Abdallah Saaf, Minister for Education, Rabat Celso Lafer, Brazilian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Brasilia Adam Michnick, Gazeta, Warsaw Russian specialist l6:30 Coffee-break 17:00 Closing Session Conclusions: Álvaro de Vasconcelos, IEEI, Lisboa José Manuel Durão Barroso, Prime Minister, Lisbon Working "Languages: Portuguese, French and English. Simultaneous translation to English.