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Organisation
Clingendael European Studies Programme
Location
The Clingendael Institute, Clingendael 7, The Hague
Date
29 November 2011
Time
from 09.15 - 17.15 hrs. Conference room open from 09.00 hrs. onwards
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Seminar Beyond the deadlock? Future perspectives on EU enlargement
29 November 2011
On the 19th of December forthcoming the European Council will sign the accession treaty of the Republic of Croatia, thus welcoming the 28th Member of the European Union. The negotiations with this state took much longer than expected. The pace of the enlargement process has slowed down considerably, which seems to become a general trend in the EU and in the (potential) candidate countries. Given the many obstacles on both sides we can even speak of a deadlock.
Hence the seminar on EU enlargement organized by the Clingendael Institute, could not have come at a better time. It aims to openly discuss the state of play in three panels: on lessons learned from earlier accessions (panel 1); on the pre-accession challenges of Turkey and Macedonia in the wider Balkan context (panel 2); and on the future perspectives (panel 3). After every panel discussion there is plenty of room for open debate.
Chairs:
- Jan Marinus Wiersma, Senior visiting fellow of the Clingendael Institute
- Joost Lagendijk, Senior advisor of the Istanbul Policy Center
They have worked closely together as members of the European Parliament until 2009 in the field of Turkey and the Western Balkans.
Guest speakers:
- Robert de Groot, Director General for European Cooperation at the MFA
- Dr. Otto Holman, Political scientist at the University of Amsterdam
- Jaap Werner, Director Europe Department MFA and former ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Romania
- Dr. Andras Inotai, General Director of the Institute for World Economics, Hungary
- Dr. Pierre Mirel, Director at the DG Enlargement for Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia and Kosovo Issues
- H.E. Ugur Dogan, Ambassador of the Republic of Turkey in The Hague
- H.E. Nikola Dimitrov, Ambassador of the Republic of Macedonia in The Hague
- Kristof Bender, Deputy Chairman European Stability Initiative, Vienna
- Mr. Jelko Kacin, Member of the European Parlement, Slovenia
- Dr. Marianne Ducasse-Rogier, Senior fellow of the Clingendael Institute
- Jitske Hoogeboom, Senior Programme officer, IKV Pax Christi
- Dr. Zia S. Syed, Enlargement/Balkans Unit Chief for the United States Mission to the European Union