Conference: Negotiating EU Accession: Which road for Croatia?, 
Zagreb, Croatia
18.11.2004


International Conference: Negotiating EU accession: Which road for
Croatia?

Organised by IMO in co-operation with Friedrich Ebert Foundation

18 November 2004, Zagreb, Novinarski dom

PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME

8:30 - 9:00 Registration of the Round table participants

9:00 - 9:30 Introduction

Ms. Marija Peje`inovi? Buri?, State Secretary, Ministry for European
Integration

Mr. Jacques Wunenberger, Head of Delegation, Delegation of the
European Commission to the Republic of Croatia

Mr. Rüdiger Pintar, Head of the Office, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung

Mladen Stanie`i?, Director of the Institute of International Relations
(IMO)

9:30 - 11:15 Panel 1: Negotiating EU accession: Learning from
experiences from candidate countries and new member states

Moderator: Vi1nja Samard3/4ija, Institute for International Relations

Speakers:

Vladimir Kissiov, Former Chief negotiator with the EU, Bulgaria

Mojmir Mrak, University of Economics, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Arpad Gordos, Director of the Department for European Integration,
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hungary

Marzena Kisielewska, Director of the Bureau of Secretary of the
Committee for European Integration, Poland

Discussion

11:15-11:30 Coffee break

11:30 - 13:15 Panel 2: Negotiating EU accession: Which road for
Croatia?

Moderator: Damir Grubi1a, Faculty of Political Science, Zagreb

Speakers:

Neven Pelicari?, Director of the Department for the EU Political
Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Croatia

Representative of the Delegation of the European Commission to the
Republic of Croatia

Bogdan Badea, Director for negotiations on Internal Market, Romania

Discussion

13:15 - 14:30 Lunch

14:30 - 15:45 Panel 3 - Role of Croatian policy research actors in the
process of negotiations with the EU

Moderator: Mojmir Mrak, Slovenia

Speakers:

Vi1nja Samard3/4ija, Institute for International Relations

Darina Kadunkova, European Institute, Sofia

Representative of Croatian Government

Discussion

15:45 - 16:00 Conclusions

REGISTARTION:

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