Europa Day Conference 2012

Europe Day Conference

“Perspectives for the Future of the European Union”

Fundação Getulio Vargas, 12th floor
Rio de Janeiro, May 9th, 2012

Welcome:
9h30 to 10h

• Carlos Ivan Simonsen Leal, President of the Getulio Vargas Foundation, Brazil
• Thomas Knirsch, Representative of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Germany
• Elena Lazarou, Centre for International Relations, FGV, Brazil
  

First Panel:
10h to 12h30 – “EU as a Global Actor in Times of Crisis”

• Ian Manners, Department of Society and Globalization, Roskilde University, Denmark
• Jordi Vaquer i Fanés, Director of the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB), Spain
• Fraser Cameron, Director of the EU-Russia Centre, Belgium
• Miriam Saraiva, Post-Graduate Program on International Relations, State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Brazil

Moderation: Bernhard Kampmann, Deputy Chief of Mission, German Embassy in Brazil, Germany.

12h30 to 14h – Lunch

Welcoming: Matias Spektor, Coordinator of the Center for International Relations, FGV

Round table:
14h to 16h – “European Studies: New Agendas and the State of Art”

• Benita Ferrero-Waldner, President of the EU-LAC Foundation, former European Commissioner for External Relations, Austria
• Philippe Schmitter, Political and Social Sciences Department, European University Institute, Italy
• Ian Manners, Department of Society and Globalization, Roskilde University, Denmark
• Antonio Carlos Lessa, International Relations Institute, University of Brasília (UnB), Brazil
• Laura C. Ferreira-Pereira, School of Social and Political Sciences, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal

Moderation: Elena Lazarou, Centre for International Relations, FGV, Brazil

16h to 16h30 - Coffee-Break

Third Panel:
16h30 to 18h30 – “Crisis and the Future of the European Integration”

• João Marques de Almeida, Bureau of European Policy Advisors (BEPA), European Commission, Portugal
• Philippe Schmitter, Political and Social Sciences Department, European University Institute, Italy
• Andrew Geddes, Department of Politics, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
• Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff, Senior Fellow and Senior Director of Strategy, German Marshall Fund of the US, United States

Moderation: Renato G. Flôres, Post-Graduate School of Economics, FGV, Brazil

Final Remarks

18h30

• Luis Antonio Balduino Carneiro, Head of the Department for Financial Issues and Services, Ministry of Foreign Relations, Brazil
• Ana Paula Zacarias, Ambassador of the European Union Delegation