Expertengespräch
Details
at the
Carlton Club
69 St. Jamess Square
London SW1A 1PJ
a one-day conference organised by
the KONRAD ADENAUER STIFTUNG and the NEW DEFENCE AGENDA
Friday May 23, 2003
08.30
Registration of the participants
9.15 – 9.30
WELCOME REMARKS : Thomas Bernd Stehling, Director, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, London
Morning Session:
9:30 – 11:00
WHAT NEW CRITERIA ARE NEEDED FOR A STRENGTHENED TRANSATLANTIC PARTNERSHIP?
MODERATOR:
Quentin Peel
International Affairs Editor, Financial Times
SPEAKERS:
Christopher Dickey, Paris Bureau Chief/Middle East Regional Editor, Newsweek
Michael Howard MP, Chairman, Atlantic Partnership & Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer
Friedrich Merz, Member of the German Bundestag, Deputy Chairman of the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group
Geoffrey Van Orden, MEP, Vice Chairman, Committee for Foreign Affairs, Common Security, Human Rights and Defence, European Parliament
Europes promised Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) lies in disarray. This is only due in part to differences over the Iraq crisis, for the EU15 had anyway made little progress towards defining common positions. How can the EU and the US now find a fresh basis for transatlantic relations? To what extent can their shared aims in the “war against terrorism help to defuse tensions over Iraq?
Morning Session Continued:
11:15 – 12:30
WHAT NEW CRITERIA ARE NEEDED FOR A STRENGTHENED TRANSATLANTIC PARTNERSHIP?
Laurent Cohen-Tanugi, Partner, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, Political Writer
Jean-Louis Gergorin, Group Managing Director, European Aeronautic Defence & Space Company (EADS)
Charles Grant, Director, Centre for European Reform
Sir David Logan, Director, Centre for Studies in Security and Diplomacy, University of Birmingham
Deborah Nutter, Senior Associate Dean, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Afternoon Session:
14:00 – 16.00
CAN ANTI-TERRORISM COOPERATION REDUCE EU AND US VULNERABILITIES?
MODERATOR :
Giles Merritt, Director, The New Defence Agenda
SPEAKERS :
General Uzi Dayan, Former Deputy Chief of Staff and Head of National Security Agency in Israel
Dr. Rob de Wijk, Professor of International Relations & Strategic Studies, Royal Netherlands Military Academy
Dr. Karl-Heinz Kamp, Head, International Planning Staff, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Berlin
Professor Ümit Özdag, Chairman of ASAM (Strategic Research Centre for Eurasian Studies)
Ambassador Fernando Perpigna-Robert, Spanish Ambassador at Large for Terrorism Issues
Dr. Magnus Ranstrop, Director, Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, University of St. Andrews
Simon Stringer, Director of Homeland Security, BAE Systems
The prevention of terrorism demands improved cooperation across the Atlantic and across borders inside Europe. How advanced are EU-level mechanisms for intelligence gathering and analysis, and is the EUs search for a shared security and defence “identity leading towards a concerted anti-terrorism policy? How closely are the homeland defence mechanisms of the EU and the US now meshing?
16:00
End of Conference
Followed by coffee and drinks in the foyer.
