International Working Seminar on Energy diplomacy in Europe: what kind of shared future?

The Institute of European Democrats (IED) together with the Paris office of the German Marshall Fund of the United States has organized an international high-level seminar entitled “Energy Diplomacy in Europe: what kind of shared future?” to examine the energy developments and prospects on the European continent. In a lively but obscure context of energy security, energy dependence and pipelines diplomacy decisions, the question of the evolution of the energy panorama in Europe is more than ever a democratic question that has to be scrutinized with the main public and private actors. Could all the European countries be able to play this great game in the same conditions? Does the European Union develop a common, rational, and efficient energy policy? How will the relations between the European Union, Nato and Russia be impacted by the energy variable?

Program

Warsaw, June 10th 2011

09:00 AM	WELCOMING PRESENTATION
09:15 AM	SESSION I - THE POLITICS OF PIPELINES: A GRAND BARGAIN
	Moderator: François Lafond, Director, Paris office, The German Marshall Fund
	Introductive remarks
	Jeffrey Mankoff, Council of Foreign Relations, Washington “The American perception of the European energy situation”
	Discussants • Etienne Beeker, Centre d’Analyse Stratégique , Prime Minister Office, Paris • Martin Ehl, Chief International Editor, Hospodářské Noviny , Prague • Pawel Piskorski, Chairman, Democratic Party, Warsaw
12:30 AM	LUNCH DISCUSSION
	Mariusz Kawnik, Permanent Representation of the Republic of Poland to the EU, Brussels “The Energy agenda of the Polish Presidency of the EU”
02:15 PM	SESSION II – THE IMPOSSIBLE ENERGY COOPERATION IN EUROP
	Moderator: Luca Bader, Institute of European Democrats, Brussels
	Introductive remarks
	Iana Dreyer, Analyst, International Trade and Economic Policy, EUISS, Paris "Gas, EU-Russia Commercial Relations and the Quest for International Rules"
	Discussants • Michele Porri, Head of Business Improvement and Origination, Intl Div, ENEL, Roma • Andrzej Szczęśniak, Oil & Gas industry expert, NaftaGaz, Warsaw • Nikolaos Bilios, Special Advisor to the State Minister, Hellenic Republic, Athens
04:45 PM	CLOSING REMARK

 

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