The Baltic and Visegrad States: After Twenty Years of Shared Interest in Europe

Keynote Speech: Jiří Schneider, First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic

Panel I: Challenges for European Economic Governance

Chair: Tomáš Weiss, EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy

Participants:
Czech Republic - Jiří Georgiev, Deputy Secretary of State for EU Affairs, Office of the Government of the Czech Republic
Estonia - Signe Ratso, Director in DG TRADE for Market Access and Industry, European Commission
Latvia - Artis Bertulis, Head of the EU Directorate, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia
Poland - Małgorzata Kaluzynska, Director of the Department of Economic Policy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland
Hungary - Géza Mocsáry, Deputy Director of the EU Economic Policy Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Hungary

Panel II: The Future of the Eastern Partnership through Baltic and Visegrad Lenses

Chair: Martin Ehl, Hospodářské noviny

Participants:
Lithuania - Liudas Mažylis, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas
Czech Republic - Petr Mareš, Ambassador, Special Envoy for the Eastern Partnership, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic
Hungary - Ádám Szesztay, Director of the Strategic Planning Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Hungary
Estonia – Erkki Bahovski, Estonian Foreign Policy Institute
Poland - Jarosław Dziedzic, Minister Counsellor, Head of Division for Eastern Partnership, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland
Slovak Republic - Igor Derco, Eastern Europe, South Caucasus and Central Asia Territorial Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic

Panel III: Energy Security and Beyond: the Contribution of the Baltic and Visegrad Countries

Chair: Jan Žižka, E15

Participants:
Hungary - Anita Orbán, Ambassador-at-Large for Energy Security, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Hungary
Lithuania - Audrius Bruzga, Ambassador, Director of the Energy Security Center, Vilnius
Czech Republic - Václav Bartuška, Ambassador-at-Large for Energy Security, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic
Slovak Republic - Urban Rusnák, Ambassador, Special Representative of the MFA for the External Energy Security
Latvia – Andris Spruds, Director of the Latvian Institute of International Affairs

Programme of the conference you can download here.

Working language:

English.

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