Seminar
Details
PROGRAMME
Thursday, 26.5.2005
Arrival of participants and accommodation
20.00 Dinner
Friday, 27.5.2005
09.00 – 09.10 Opening of the Seminar
Welcoming by Klaus Brambach – Counselor and Director of the Press and Information Department at the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Sofia
09.10 – 09.20Presentation of the programme, organisers, participants and main speakers
Ognian Zlatev – Director of Media Development Center - Sofia
09.20 – 09.30Welcoming by Nedyalko Nedelchev – Honorary consul of the Federal Republic of Germany and France in Varna
09.30 – 10.00 First Session: Bulgaria’s Perspective in the EU
Speaker: Krassimir Kostov – Diplomatic Adviser to the Deputy Prime Minister of Bulgaria and founding member of the European Movement in Bulgaria
10.00 – 10.30 Second Session: Worth and value of journalism in a free society
Speaker: Ralf Jaksch – Representative of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation - Sofia
10.30 - 11.00 Third Session: Bulgaria's economic opportunities in the EU
Speaker: Wolfgang Brett – Head of Division Task Force for Foreign Trade and Payments – Federal Foreign Office, Berlin
11.00 – 11.30 Discussion
11.30 – 11.45 Coffee Break
11.45 – 12.45 Fourth Session: EU – Reflections and Challenges after the Signing of the Accession Treaty for Bulgaria
Speaker: Krasimir Kostov
12.45 – 13.15Discussion
13.15 – 14.30Lunch
14.30 – 15.00Fifth Session: The economic effects for the New Member States after the Expansion of the EU on 01.05.04. – Positive and Negative examples for Bulgaria
Speaker: Reinhold Vetter, Chief correspondent for Eastern Europe of “Handelsblatt”, Warsaw
15.00 – 16.00 Sixth Session: 1 Year after the Biggest Expansion of the EU – Changes and Challenges for the New Member States
Speaker: Ilin Stanev, International Politics Editor, Capital Weekly
16.00 – 16.15Coffee Break
16.15 – 16.45Seventh Session: From Signing the Accession Treaty to Real Membership in the EU – What’s Next
Speakers: Krassimir Kostov and Ilin Stanev
16.45 – 17.30 Discussion
20.00 Buffet – Dinner, hosted by:
Klaus Brambach – Director of the Press and Information Department at the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Sofia
Saturday, 28.5.2005
09.00 – 09.30Eight Session: Bulgaria and the internal EU market after the Accession – How can the national economy maintain its position
Speaker: Reinhold Vetter
09.30 – 10.00Discussion
10.00 – 10.30Ninth Session: Investments of German companies in Bulgaria
Speaker: Wolfgang Brett
10.30 – 11.00Discussion
11.00 – 11.15Coffee Break
11.15 – 14.30Practical Assignments of participants - conducting interviews and preparation of articles
14.30 – 16.00 Lunch
16.00 – 17.00Tenth Session: Debrief and Discussion on the results of the practical assignments
17.00 – 17.30Closing and evaluation of the seminar
Krassimir Kostov, Ilin Stanev, Klaus Brambach
20.00 Dinner
Sunday, 29.5.2005
Breakfast
Departure of participants