Programme5th December 2016, Intercontinental Hotel, Warsaw

09:00-09:30 Registration

09:30-09:40 Introduction and welcome•Marzenna Guz-Vetter, Ph.D., Deputy Head of the European Commission Representation in Poland

9:40-11:00 PANEL IThe migratory crisis - a test for the European effectiveness and solidarity?Panel hosted by the European Council on Foreign Relations

•Gerald Knaus, ECFR Member, President of the European Stability Initiative, Berlin•Rainer Münz, ECFR Member, Vice-Director of the European Political Strategy Centre, Brussels•Vessela Tcherneva, Senior Director for Programmes and Head of ECFR Sofia Office

Moderator: Piotr Buras, Head of the Warsaw based office of the European Council on Foreign Relations

11:00-11:20 Q&A Session

11:20-11:35 Coffee break

11:35-11:55 Address of Konrad Szymański Secretary of State for European Affairs, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Poland

11:55-13:15 PANEL IIThe Internal Market of the EU - a market of economic freedom or devolving project?Panel hosted by WiseEuropa - Warsaw Institute for Economic Studies

•Fredrik Erixon, Director of European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE), Brussels•Witold Orłowski, Chief Economic Advisor, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Warsaw•Marcin Roszkowski, President of the Board of the Jagiellonian Institute, Warsaw

Moderator: Krzysztof Blusz, Vice-president of WiseEuropa

13:15-13:35 Q&A Session

13:35-14:30 Lunch break

14:30–15:50 PANEL IIIThe European Union in the world - a dwindling power or a major player?Panel hosted by the Centre for International Relations

•Alfredo Conte, Head of Strategic Planning Division in the European External Action Service•Małgorzata Bonikowska, Ph.D., President of the Centre for International Relations•Jacek Czaputowicz, prof., Member of Board of Directors of the Polish-U.S. Fulbright Commission, Professor at University of Warsaw•Olaf Osica, Director for Risk Assessment, Polityka Insight and former executive director of the Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW)

Moderator: Eugeniusz Smolar, Board member of theCentre for International Relations

15:50-16:10 Q&A Session

16:10 Conference conclusion

•Marzenna Guz-Vetter, Ph.D., Deputy Head of the European Commission Representation in Poland

16:15 Networking cocktail

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