The conference will bring together academics, policy-makers and civil society representatives from Central and Eastern Europe to discuss democratic traditions, EU enlargement and the role of regional organisations in a rapidly changing geopolitical context
PROGRAMME
11.00 – 11.30 Official opening
prof. Alojzy Nowak, HE Rector of the University of Warsaw
Franco Dal Mas, CEI Secretary General
Me Artur Hazarim, Undersecretary of State, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Poland
Romanian Presidency of CEI, TBC
11.30 – 13.00 Panel 1 Democratic Experience in Central and Eastern Europe
Chair: prof. Agnieszka Bieńczyk – Missala (TBC)
Traditions of democracy in Central and Eastern Europe and European integration
Prof. Jacek Czaputowicz (University of Warsaw)
The EU as a club of democratic states. Does the EU has a role as a guardian of democracy
Luisa Chiodi (Osservatore Balcani e Caucaso Transeuropa)
Democratic Breakthrough in Hungary
Balint Magyar (Central European University)
From defending democracy to renewal: overcoming the hill of Sisyphus
Tin Gazivoda – D-Hub, (Development Director)
13.50 – 14.30 Lunch buffet
14.00 – 15.34 Panel 2 Integration, Democracy and the EU Enlargement
Chair: Prof. Dorota Heidrich (University of Warsaw)
The Populist Hijack of Politics. How to Get it Back?
Remigius Simasius (Partnership Professor at Vilnius University)
The Western Balkans democratic experience
Gazela Pudar Drażko (University of Belgrade)
Ukraine’s experience of democracy in times of war
Hanna Hopko (ANTS – National Interests Advocacy Network)
Moldova’s democracy and strategic orientation
Adrian Ermurachi (IPRE)
16.15 – 17.15 Round Table (in cooperation with the Institute of Central Europe)
The role of regional organizations in turbulent times
Chair: Grzegorz Gil (Director Institute of Central Europe)
Matteo Bonomi (IAI), Alfredo Durante Mangoni (Italian MFA), Magdalena Modrzyńska (Polish MFA), Konstantine Vardzelashvili (ODIHR OSCE)
