The 25th Anniversary of the Establishment of the Visegrad Cooperation

The Institute of International Relations Prague, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, the International Visegrad Fund and the Think Visegrad platform organized closed expert conference on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the establishment of the Visegrad cooperation. Among its highlights were the public speeches of the V4 Ministers of Foreign Affairs, a presentation of a report by the Eminent Personalities on the future of the Visegrad Group and a presentation of the V4 Presidency Mid-Term Review by the Think Visegrad as well as appearances by many distinguished speakers both from the V4 and from the outside regions.

18. 2. 2016 (10:00)

Tento obsah není aktuální Czernin Palace, MFA CR, Loretánské náměstí 5

10:40 – 11:45 Future of the V4 on the Background of Results Achieved in 25 Years

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Miroslav Lajčák, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic
Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary
Witold Waszczykowski, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland
Lubomír Zaorálek, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic
Libor Rouček, Former member of the European Parliament
Chair: Michal Kořan, Deputy Director, Institute of International Relations Prague

11:50 – 12:30 Think Visegrad – V4 Presidency Mid-Term Review Presentation

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Chair: Tomáš Strážay, Senior Researcher, Central and Eastern Europe Program, Slovak Foreign Policy Association

12:45 – 13:30 A presentation of the report on the future of the Visegrad Group by a panel of eminent persons

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Pavol Demeš, Independent Expert, Non-Resident Senior Fellow with the German Marshall Fund
Wojciech Jerzy Gizicki, Associate Professor, Institute of Political Science and International Affairs, Faculty of Social Sciences, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
Jacek Purchla, Head of the Department of Economic and Social History, Krakow University of Economics
Libor Rouček, Former member of the European Parliament
Chair: Dániel Bartha, Executive Director, Centre for Euro-Atlantic Integration and Democracy (CEID), Hungary

14:30 – 16:00 Central Europe in the Future EU: A Non-Visegrad Perspective

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Matej Avbelj, Associate Professor of European Law, Dean at the Graduate School of Government and European Studies
Rick Fawn, Senior Lecturer, School of International Relations, University of St Andrews
Kai-Olaf Lang, Senior Fellow, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Berlin
Martin Michelot, Head of Research at the EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy in Prague
Chair: Benjamin Tallis, Research Fellow, Institute of International Relations Prague and the Coordinator of the Institute’s Centre for European Security