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A major event of the French Presidency of the European Union
The first European gathering of the « European Born » generations
The « NEWROPEANS 2000 » congress
New Europe, New Challenges, New Generations
Paris, October 5th to 7th 2000
Under the High Patronage of Mr Jacques Chirac, President of the French
Republic
Close of the congress by Mr Lionel Jospin, French Prime Minister
With the patronage and the participation of :
Mr Pierre Moscovici, French Delegate Ministre for European Affairs /
Mr Michel Barnier, European Commissioner
As part of the French Presidency of the European Union
As part of the Dialogue on Europe of the European Commission
To mark the XV° anniversary of the First Congress of the European Student
Forum (EGEE 1)
More than 2000 participants coming from all over Europe to :
Listen to the personalities who make today's
political and economical Europe
Meet the up-coming generations that will shape
the next decades' Europe
Get informed about the EU's big tendencies on the skyline of 2020
Share their ideas and projects with professionals
from all over Europe
Official Partners :
Financial Times, Rossmann S.A., Air-France, Robert Schuman Foundation,
Election.com,
TNC - Eurofunding, , AEGEE-Paris
NGOs Partners :
Internet Society Worldwide, Growth Plus, Europe 2020, Tiesweb.org, Globe
2020, North American Student Forum (NASF)
NEWROPEANS 2000 : Programme of the five simultaneous foci
Thursday 5th and Friday 6th 2000
Venue : Ministry of Finance and Economy *
The European Union today represents one third of world wide trade and
economy; it is indeed a major actor of the 21st century.
However the European Union is just about to discover its leading role and to
find out that it has to assume it.
Will the EU give way to the will of power temptation like most European
nations did in the past centuries? Or will Europe try in contrast to invent
a new role, with aims and instruments of external action suitable with its
own perception of itself as a multinational political entity of a new kind?
How will its partners, and in the first place the United States, will react
to these developments?
How will the EU manage to transmit outside the thoroughly innovative process
that led to its foundation 50 years ago?
Thursday 5 October :
14:00 - 16:00 : Opening session :
* Mr Laurent FABIUS*, French Minister of Finance and Economy
* Mr Charles JOSSELIN*, French Minister of Cooperation
* Mr NIELSON, , European Commissioner for Development, represented by
Mr Paul NEMITZ, Advisor, European Commission
16:00 - 16.30 : Debate / Questions
16:30 - 18:30 : Panel A1 - The EU, a deliberate catalyst of international
relations in the XXIst century : new powers, civil societies, companies.
* Mr Jaroslav CHLEBO, State Secretary for European Affairs, Slovak
Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Slovak Republic
* Mrs Catherine VIEILLEDENT, Administrator, European Commission,
General Secretary - « Points Cardinaux »
Friday 6 October :
09.30 - 11.30 : Panel A2 - The EU, a promotor of the new objective
challenges of globalisation : environment, natural resources, poverty,
ethics, access to information....
* Mr Jeppe KOFOD, Member of the Danish Parliament, representing Mr Jan
TROJBORG, Danish Minister of Development and Cooperation, Copenhagen
* Mr Julius SEN, Doctorate Student, London School of Economics
* Mr Jacques BONJAWO, Programme Manager, Microsoft Corporation,
Washington
- Mr John HONTELEZ, General Secretary, European Environment Bureau,
Belgium
*
11:45 - 13:00 : Panel A3 - The transatlantic relation in the XXIst century :
the laboratory of a more stable word or a matrix for new conflicts ?
- Mr Brian MURPHY, Director, European Centre, Georgia University,
Atlanta, US
- Mr Francisco MARMOLEJO, Executive Director, Consortium for Nothern
America Higher Education,
- Mr Eric HAYES, Head of Unit USA, Directorate General for External
Relations, European Commission
14:15 - 16:30 : Panel A4 - The UE, a privileged partner for regional
integrations : Mercosur, Asean, ...
- Mrs Graça GONCALVES PEREIRA , Director, European Department,
Portuguese Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Lisbon
- Mr Stelios CHRISTOPOULOS, Directorate General for Development,
European Commission, Brussels
16:45 - 18:30 : Panel A5 - The EU, an innovating architect of the new
international organisations (integration,law)
19:00 - 21:00 : Closing session : Reception by Mr Hubert VEDRINE, French
Minister for Foreign Affairs, in the reception halls of the Foreign Affairs
Ministry
On Friday 6 October, in parallel to the plenary sessions, 3 three-hour
mini-seminars, gathering a maximum of 80 participants will take place on the
following themes :
- The Internet and globalisation : can new information technologies
give birth to some form of planetary democracy ? (English)
* The European Union and the will of power : can the EU implement a
policy of external relations that reflects the Community process rather than
an imperialist model (French)
Focus Partner : Election.com
Venue : Ministry of Justice of the Arch of La Défense
Until 2010 the European Union will consist of about 500 million citizens
from more than 20 different countries and cultures, speaking even more
different languages. Never before in history such a diversified human
concoction equipped with such a high level of democracy has existed. There
is no archetype describing its political organisation, its administrative
architecture, its judicial system, ... . The Europeans will have to invent
step by step from the very beginning solutions to those problems arising
from the peaceful coexistence of all these peoples, citizens and
aspirations. This will be all the more necessary since democracy itself and
governance meet a significant change as new information technologies emerge
in the context of what can be called the Second Wave of Democratisation (the
first wave belonging to the end of the 18th / beginning of the 19th
century).
Thursday 5 October :
14:00 - 16:00 : Opening Session :
* Mrs Elisabeth GUIGOU, French Minister of Justice
* Mr Antonio VITORINO, European Commissioner in charge of Justice and
Internal Affairs
16:00 - 16.30 : Debate / Questions
16:30 - 18:30 : Panel B1 - Setting up a European political and
administrative network in order to serve 500 million citizens
- Mr Jean-François BERNICOT, Member of the European Court of Auditors,
Luxemburg
- Mrs Elisabeth GATEAU General Secretary, Council of European Local
Authorities and Regions, Paris
- Mr Alan PRATLEY, former Financial Controller at the European
Commission, Brussels
* Mr Thierry BERT, Head of the Finances General Inspectorate, French
Economics and Finance Ministry, Paris
- Mr Vladimir VALACH, Ambassador of the Slovak Republic in Paris
Friday 6 October :
09:30 - 11:30 : Panel B2 - Inventing and implementing the mobilizing
political process for the Euro-Citizens : towards a Common Democracy
- Mr Thom DE BRUIJN, General Director of European Affairs, Dutch
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hague
- Mr Miklos BARABAS, Director, European House, Hungary
- Mr Hubertus DESSLOCH, Director, Representation Office of the Bavarian
State in Brussels
* Mr Philippe HERZOG, President of « Confrontations », France
11:45 - 13:00 : Panel B3 - Creating a convergence between Democracy, Europe
and Internet : inventing the European E-lections of 2004 and 2008
- Mr Regis JAMIN, President, Election.com Europe
* Mr Daniel KAPLAN, Delegate General, Foundation Internet New
Generation, Paris
* Mr Cristophe LECLERCQ, Publisher & Managing Director, EurActiv.com,
new media on EU affairs
* Mr Paul SORIANO, President, IREPP
14:30 - 16:30 : Panel B4 - The Euro-Citizen : secured by law and security in
the European space
- Mr Harald GREIB, Federal Interior Ministry, Berlin
- Mrs Elisabeth PELSEZ, Coordinator of the Eurojust network, French
Ministry of Justice, Paris
- Mrs Denise SORASIO, Director, Directorate General for Justice and
Internal Affairs, European Commission
- Mr Ward BEYSEN, Vice-President at the Committee for Judicial Affairs
and Internal Market, European Commission, Brussels
- Mr Alain RENS, Ambassador of Belgium in Paris
16:45 - 18:30 : Panel B5 - Cultural diversity and political unity : the
challenge of languages and translation technologies
- Mr Philippe BUSQUIN, European Commissioner, represented by Mr
Gregorio Medrano-Asensio, advisor, EC
* Mrs Anne-Marie REVCO, Director Delegate Innovation, Directorate for
International Relations, French Ministry of Research
* Mr Jan PRINS, President, ISOC-Internet Society Netherlands
* Mr Chris ZIELINSKI, Director, Health Information for Development
Project, United Kingdom
On Friday 6 October, in parallel to the plenary sessions, 2 three-hour
mini-seminars, gathering a maximum of 80 participants, will take place on
the following themes :
- Strategy and calendar for a Common Democracy (French)
- Methodology for an E-lection Europe-wide (English)
Venue : Société Nationale d'Horticulture / Ministry of Agriculture
Our relation to time has changed more during the last twenty years than ever
before. In fact from now on, the present is influenced at least as much by
the future as by the past. Future has become a crucial incentive for most
our decisions, either at the level of collective decisions (long term
consequences of pollution, demographic tendencies, ...) or individual
decisions (Should I buy a new computer or telephone today, in sixth months
or in a year? Which technical equipment will I need for my job in three,
four or five years?). Complexity (in societies and organisations) and change
have become the rule, particularly because the new schemes of behaviour are
still uncertain. And technology irrupts in all sectors of human life
knocking over certitude, limits and values. The EU can try to build a
society where the human being will be at the heart of the evolutions or in
contrast where the human being will turn into a mere instrument or product.
Agriculture with its deep roots in the past, and food with its vital role
for the human being are two good test areas for what the EU wants to offer
to its children in the next decades and also to its seniors who will
paradoxically constitute a major social group in an ever changing society.
Thursday 5 October :
14:00 - 16:00 : Opening session :
* Mr Jean GLAVANY, French Minister of Agriculture
* Mr Franz FISCHLER, European Commissioner for Agriculture
16:00 - 16:30 : Debate / Questions
16:30 - 18:30 : Panel C1 - Food security : a major challenge for the 500
million future Euro-Consumers
Friday 6 October :
09:30 - 11:30 : Panel C2 - Agriculture in the 21st century : combining
environment, landscape and quality - a contract between citizens and
farmers
* Mr Salvino BUSUTTIL, Ambassador of Malta in Paris
11:45 - 13:00 : Panel C3 -Human dimension, proximity and European
construction : regions and large European transportation and
telecommunication networks
14:30 - 16:30 : Panel C4 - Solidary, Societies and new demographic balance
* Mr Richard HILL, Senior Author and Speaker on Intercultural
Dynamics, Europublic SA/NV, Belgium
* Mr Marcial HERRERO, Doctorate Student, Assistent Teacher, University
Center of Plasencia-Extramadura, Spain
16:30 - 18:30 : Panel C5 - The internet, catalyst of new social and
professional organisation.
* Mr Richard HILL, Senior Author and Speaker on Intercultural
Dynamics, Europublic SA/NV, Belgium
* Mrs Rosa DELGADO, CORE ITU Member of the ISOC Board of Trustees
* Mr Mike BURKS, Systems Analyst and Teacher, AT&T and the
International Center for Disabilities Resources on the Internet, USA
* Mr Alexandru HERLEA, Ambassador of Romania at the European Union
* Mrs Marie-Anne DELAHAUT, Administrator, ISOC Wallonie
Venue : Ministry of Defence, Ecole Militaire
Just like any other major political entity, the European Union has to deal
with its security. As Europe significance increases, security stakes become
more and more numerous. First of all is the relationship between Europe and
its neighbours. Indeed in the case of the EU the problem of the next two
decades is attached to this question of security and to the difficulties
encountered by the EU in defining its borders ... and therefore in
identifying its neighbours. Yet it is becoming necessary to settle, at least
for two decades, an EU neighbourhood, in order to enable the development of
"good-neighbourhood" policies and to initiate experiments of advanced
partnerships that do not necessarily lead to enlarging the EU. Otherwise
would the EU be an ever-absorbing political entity ? This is generally known
as an empire.
Thursday 5 October :
14:00 - 16:00 : Opening session :
- Mr Alain Richard, French Minister of Defence
- Mr Javier SOLANA, General Secretary of the EU Council, Brussels
- Mr Janos MARTONYI, Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs
16:00 - 16:30 : Debate / Questions
16:45 - 18:30 : Panel D1 - The EU, a Centre of Regional Security by 2010
- Mr Eugen DIJMARESCU, State Secretary for European Affairs, Romania
- Mr Francisco SEIXAS DA COSTA, Romanian State Secretary for Foreign
Affairs
* Mrs Sandra KALNIETE, Ambassador of Latvia in Paris
* Mr Peter HARTMANN, Ambassador of Germany in Paris
Friday 6 october :
09:30 - 11:30 : Panel D2 - EU Security and defence : the proximity
challenges
- Mr ZIPPER DE FABIANI, Directorate for Strategic Affairs, French
Ministry of Defence
* Mrs Asta SKAISGIRYTE, Ambassador of Lithuania in Paris
* Mrs Marie-Françoise DOMBROWSKY, Director of OARIC (Observatoire
d'Analyses des Relations
Internationales Contemporaines), France
* Mr Fernand HERMAN, Former European Deputy, Brussels
11:45 - 13:00 : Panel D3 - Defining the goals, a strategy and a status for
the relationship between the EU and its neighbourhood : towards innovating
forms of partnership
- Mr Örjan BERNER, Ambassador of Sweden in Paris
- Mr Kadri KALLIKORM, Diplomat at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs,
Estonia
- Mr Stéphane TAFROV, Ambassadeur of Bulgaria in Paris
- Mr Anatoli ZLENKO, Ambassador of Ukraine in Paris
14:30 - 16:30 : Panel D4 - Mobility of men and neighbour relationships : a
demographic challenge
- Mr Dan LUCA, Executive Director of the European House-Cluj-Napoca,
Romania
16:45 - 18:30 : Panel D5 - The future of the Euromed Partnership : a test on
the role of the EU in the world
- Mr Mohamed KNIDIRI, Rector of the University of Marrakech, Morocco
On Friday 6 October, in parallel to the plenary sessions, 1 three-hour
mini-seminar, gathering a maximum of 80 participants, will take place on the
following theme :
- EU security : anticipating the threats (French)
Venue: Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM) / Chambre
de Commerce et d'Industrie de Paris/ Négocia
The previous focus show it. The scale and complexity of the challenges the
EU has to facet in the following decades are changing: from now on it will
be about managing a multicultural and multilingual continent with a highly
complex society subject to very rapid changes, particularly technological
ones, and in constant interaction with the rest of the planet. Ability to
manage complexity, to anticipate changes, to work in a multicultural
environment, to master the new tools and processes of democracy, ... these
are some of the skills that hundreds of thousands of European executives
will have to acquire between now and the end of the decade; and some of the
pieces of knowledge that millions of citizens will have to be familiar with.
In almost each of these fields there is still a lot to be done and today the
EU has to cope with an immense lack of executives trained to manage the
European complexity (as regards politics, the media, administration or
education) and a lack of citizens able to influence in an active and
constructive way on its evolutions.
Thursday 5 October :
14:00 - 15:30 : Opening session :
- Mr Jack LANG, French Minister of Education
- Mr BUSQUIN, European Commissioner for Research, represented by Mr
Gregorio MEDRANO-ASENSIO, Advisor, European Commission
15:30 - 16:00 : Debate / Questions
16:00 - 17:15 : Panel E1 - Democratising the access to Europe : a challenge
in education and training
Friday 6 October :
09:30 - 11:30 : Panel E2 - Training the citizens and decision-makers of a
continental and multicultural democracy of 500 million people
- Mrs Hélène AHRWEILER, former Rector of the Academy of Paris
- Mrs Anne-Marie REVCO, Vice - Director , Directorate of Technology,
French Ministry of Research
11:45 - 13:00 : Panel E3 - Organising the European space of knowledge
(innovation of methods and tools, student mobility) : a new horizon for the
European education policies
- Mr Klaus WERNER, Head of division, Audit Group 2, Social Policy,
European Court of Auditors, Luxemburg
14.30 - 16.30 : 2001 / E-university vote / University internet vote :
electing online the European student representatives for the European
institutions (English)
17:00 - 18.30 : Panel E4 - A Europe open to the world : the partnerships of
the EU with the rest of the world in the field of education (EU/US, EU/Latin
America, EU/Asia, EU/Med, EU/Africa)
- Mr Brian MURPHY, Director, European Center, Georgia University,
Atlanta
- Mr Francisco MARMOLEJO, Executive Director, Consortium for Nothern
America Higher Education, US
- Mr Ronald SULTANA, Director, Programme "Comparative Education in
EuroMed Studies", Univ. of Malta
- Mr Patrick GALLAUD, General Secretary, FMACU ( Fédération Mondiale
des Associations, Centres et Clubs UNESCO), House of UNESCO,
On Friday 6 October, in parallel to the plenary sessions, 3 three-hour
mini-seminars, gathering a maximum of 150 participants, will take place on
the following themes :
- What will European student networks look like in the years 2000/2010
? (goals, strategy, structure and method) (English)
NEWROPEANS 2000, The Final Conference / Venue : La Sorbonne
Saturday 7th October 2000
Debate moderation by Alex Taylor, European editorialist
08:00 - Opening of doors and registrations
09:00 - 10:15 : Official opening of the Final Conference
Welcome speeches:
- Mrs Hélène BERARD, Head of Project Newropeans, Prometheus-Europe
- Mrs Ines BELUS, Presidente of AEGEE-Paris
- Mr Jack LANG, French Minister of Education
10:15 - 11:00 : Presentation of Foci conclusions
Mr Franck BIANCHERI, Founder of AEGEE-Europe / President of
Prometheus-Europe
and the 5 Foci reporters
11:00 - 13:30 : European policy-towards the new generation ! Acting in
politics in the 2010 Europe.
* Debate including speeches of 5 European ministers (to be confirmed)
- Mr Dick BENSCHOP, Minister Delegate to European Affairs, The Netherlands
- Mr Viktor ORBAN, Hungarian Prime Minister
- Mr Jose Mariano R. PIRES-GAGO, Portuguese Minister of Research
- Mr Jean-Claude JUNCKER, Prime Minister of Luxemburg
- Mrs Nadejda MIHAILOVA, Bulgarian Minister of Foreign Affairs
* Closing speech by Mr Michel BARNIER, European Commissionner for
Regional Policies and IGC
13:30 - 14:30 : Lunch Break
14:30 - 16:30 : European Business - towards the new generation ! Making
business in Europe in the coming decade.
* Keynote speaker : Mr Bernard ROSSMANN, President of Rossmann SA.,
France
* With the participation of Mrs Michaele SCHREYER, European
Commissionner in charge of Budget
* Debate including speeches from 4 European Company Heads
- Mr Christian HUNT, President, EMDS Group SA, Belgium
- Mr Leendert BIKKER, Bikker Communication Group, The
Netherlands
- Mr Olivier Fleurot , President, Financial Times
16:30 - 17:15 : New Technologies, civil society : a Europe open to the world
and to the future
* Speech by Mr Vint Cerf, Inventor of Internet
* Transatlantic Dialogue by video-conference between European and
North-American students
* Presentation of the websites TIESWeb <http://www.tiesweb.org> and
SITMED <http://www.newropeans.org/sitmed/index.html>, first transcontinental
portals addressed to the actors of civil society
* Launching of the project«E-University vote 2001», first online
European election addressed to students.
17:15 - 17:45 : Those Europeans who make Europe
Awarding of two Newropeans prices : NEWROPEANS / Robert SCHUMAN by Mr
Jean-Dominique GIULIANI, President of « Robert SCHUMAN Foundation »
o to Mr Otto VON DER GABLENTZ, Rector of the
Bruges College
o to European student networks (AEGEE-Europe,
BEST , ELSA)
Speeches by : Mr Vaclav HAVEL*, President of the Czech Republic / Mr Javier
SOLANA, Secretary General of the EU Council
17:45 - 18:15 : Preparing Tomorrow's Europe : Towards a Common Democracy
Speech by Mr Franck BIANCHERI, Founder of AEGEE, President of
Prometheus-Europe
18:15 - 18:45 :Conclusion of the congress by Mr Pierre Moscovici, French
Délestage Minister of European Affairs
18:45 - 19:30 : Closing of the congress by Mr Lionel JOSPIN, French Prime
Minister
20:00 - 22:00 : Receptions
22:00 - .... : Newropeans Nights, Europeans go to party in Paris
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