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8th Information & Training Seminar for Diplomats

14th - 17th April 2000


Programme

 Day One - Friday 14th April 2000
 
     
16.00   Welcome Address
Prof. Felix Meier, Director, Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies
     
16.10  

Opening address
Ms Anne-Charlotte  Bournoville, European Commission, External Relations Directorate General

     
 16.30  

MEDA Report 1999
Mr Michael Koehler, European Commission, External Relations Directorate General

     
17.30  

MEDA II: stakes and prospects
Mr Michael Koehler, European Commission, DG RELEX

     
18.30   Group Photo in the Ballroom of the hotel, followed by
Reception in the Bridge Bar, hosted by MEDAC
     

 Day Two - Saturday 15th April 2000
 
     
08.30   Regional cooperation: directions for use
Mr Martin Dawson, European Commission, External Relations Directorate General
     
10.00   Visit to H.E. Professor Guido de Marco, President of Malta
     
11.45   Working Groups (phase 1): Introductive presentation on the impact of the Euro on Mediterranean Partners' economies
Mr Bachir Hamdouch, FEMISE, INSEA (Morocco)
     
 12.30   Working Groups (phase 2): 3 restricted working groups to go into the subject and to draw conclusions
     
14.30   Working Groups (phase 3): panel on the results of the 3 working  groups
Conducted by Mr Bachir Hamdouch, FEMISE, INSEA (Morocco)
     
15.15   Information Technology workshop
Mr Jovan Kurbalija, Head of Unit for IT and Diplomacy
     
16.30   The role of MEDA vis-à-vis investment flows in the Mediterranean Partners
Mr Martin Dawson, External Relations Directorate General
     
1730   Synthesis of work and discussion time between Participants
1 rapporteur from the EU, 1 rapporteur from a Mediterranean Partner
     

 
 Day Three - Sunday 16th April 2000
 
     
09.00   Status of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership and priorities of the Portuguese Presidency
Mr Paulo Barbosa, Portuguese Presidency, Chairman of the Euro-Mediterranean Committee
     
10.00   Information and Technology workshop: practical exercises (1/2 group)
     
11.45  

Panel:The role of the EU in the Peace Process –
Barcelona Process and Peace Process

Mr Miguel Moratinos, EU Special Envoy for the Middle East Peace Process

     
 14.15   Panel: The status of the Euro-Mediterranean Charter For Peace and Stability
Dr Stephen Calleya, EuroMeSCo

Ms Wafaa Bassim, Counsellor, Head of the European Union Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Egypt)
     
16.45   Information Technology workshop: practical exercises (1/2 group)
     
17.30  

Synthesis of work and discussion time between participants
1 rapporteur from the EU, 1 rapporteur from a Mediterranean Partner

     

 

 Day Four - Monday 17th April 2000
 
     
09.00   Euromed Heritage programme and cultural tourism:
The example of the Museum Without Frontiers' Project.

Ms Anne-Charlotte Bournoville, Euromed Information And Culture Desk Officer, European Commission, External Relations Directorate  General
Ms Eva Schubert, Secretary General of Museum Without Frontiers
     
10.00   Audiovisual landscape in the Mediterranean Partners
Ms Anne-Charlotte Bournoville, Euromed Information and Culture Desk Officer, European Commission, External Relations Directorate General

Mr Ahmed Baha Eddine Attia, Manager of CinéTéléfilms, President of APIMED (Tunisia)
     
11.30  

MEDA Democracy Programme - a concrete Illustration: Training programme for Arab lawyers
Mr Jonathan Goldsmith, Director of the “Law Society of England”

     
 12.30   Debriefing-evaluation session
Dr Stephen Calleya, MEDAC

Ms Anne-Charlotte Bournoville, External Relations Directorate General
     
13.00   Closing address
Mr Salv J Stellini, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
     
13.30   Reception in the Bridge Bar, hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Malta.
     
15.00   Cultural visit
     

 

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