Specialist conference
Details
Strengthening Political Integrity within the Center-Right Political Parties in Central and Eastern Europe
Conference – Bucharest, Romania - December 3-5, 2010
Parliament bulding – “Human rights” Hall
Friday, 3 December 2010
Participants arrive (Pick up from the airport with hotel buses) - Welcome dinner – 20.30 Marriott Hotel
Saturday, 4 December 2010
08.00Breakfast – Marriott Hotel
08:40Meeting in the hotel lobby – Walk to Parliament building (5-10 min.) – A1 Gate (Senate)
09:00Welcoming remarks
JAN SUROTCHAK, Resident Director, Europe, International Republican Institute
HOLGER DIX, Director, Konrad Adenauer Foundation Romania
VALERIU STOICA, President, Institute for Popular Studies
TOMI HUHTANEN, Director, Center for European Studies
JAN SCHINKELSHOEK, Expert, Eduardo Frei Foundation
09:30Risks of corruption within political parties
TOMI HUHTANEN, Director, Center for European Studies
DRAGOS PAUL ALIGICA, Senior Research Fellow, Mercatus Center, George Mason University - USA; Center for Analysis and Institutional Development - Romania
GYÖRGY TIBORFI, Cabinet Secretary, Foreign Affairs Cabinet - EU Affairs Workgrup, FIDESZ – Hungary
Livia Saplacan, Spokeswoman, National Anticorruption Directorate – Romania
10:45Coffee Break
11:00Difficulties in building integrity in post-communist Europe parties
SEVER VOINESCU, MP, Institute for Popular Studies - Romania
SENAD SEPIC, Deputy Minister of Civil Affairs, Party of the Democratic Action (SDA) - Bosnia and Herzegovina
AIMAR ALTOSAAR, Director of Jaan Tonisson Institute – Pro Patria and Res Publica Union, Estonia
DONATAS PILINKUS, Assoc. prof. dr., Liberal Movement - Lithuania
12:30Lunch – Parliament building – “Salonul Brancovenesc” hall
14:00Human resources recruitment, training and promotion mechanisms within the center-right political parties
DAN TAPALAGA, Journalist, Hotnews.ro - Romania
JAROSLAV POLACEK, Tradition - Responsibility - Prosperity (TOP 09) - Czech Republic
SULFINA BARBU, MP, Vice-president of the Democrat Liberal Party - Romania
15:30Coffee Break
16:00Mechanism and solutions for ensuring stability within the center-right parties in CEE
VALERIU STOICA, Vice-president of the Democrat Liberal Party - Romania
DENITSA IVANOVA, Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria (GERB) - Bulgaria
HOLGER DIX, Director, Konrad Adenauer Foundation Romania - Germany
17:00Meeting adjourns
18.40Meeting in the hotel lobby – Departure with hotel buses to restaurant
19:00Dinner – “Hanul Berarilor” restaurant (Str. Poenaru Bordea nr.2, Sector 5, Bucuresti)
Sunday, 5 December 2010
08.00Breakfast – Marriott Hotel
09:10Meeting in the hotel lobby – Walk to Parliament building (5-10 min.) – A1 Gate (Senate)
9:30Transfer of best practices on ethics and integrity in center-right parties
JAIME GARCÍA-LEGAZ, Secretary General, Foundation for Analysis and Social Studies – Spain
JAN SCHINKELSHOEK, Eduardo Frei Foundation - Netherlands
CRISTIAN GHINEA, Director, Romanian Center for European Policies – Romania
10.45Coffee break
11:00 State capture vs. transparency and accountability in political parties financing
MONICA MACOVEI, Member of the European Parliament – EPP Group, Democrat Liberal Party - Romania
AGNE BILOTAITE, MP, Chairwoman of the Parliamentary Group For Citizens’ Efforts to Create Lithuania Free of Corruption, Homeland Union – Lithuania
ALEKSEJS LOSKUTOVS, MP, Former Head of Latvia's Anti-corruption Bureau (KNAB) – Society for Other Politics - Latvia
ALEKSANDAR RADONJIĆ, Chief of G17Plus Parliamentary Group in Assembly of AP of Vojvodina, G17 Plus / Party of Regions - Serbia
12:45Press conference / Lunch
14:00Future steps and conference’s final resolution
16:00Meeting adjourns
(Participants depart)
19:00Dinner – “Sangria” restaurant (Caderea Bastiliei nr. 78, Bucuresti)
Monday, 6 December 2010
(Participants depart)
