Events

The Robert Schuman Foundation, together with the Embassy of France in Poland and the Polish Robert Schuman Foundation organised a seminar focussing on "The Presidencies of the European Union in 2008" in Warsaw on 16th January. Pascale Joannin, Director General took part in this meeting along with François Barry-Delongchamps, Ambassador of France in Poland, Jozef Drofenik, Ambassador of Slovenia in Poland, Jan Borkowski, Secretary to the Polish Foreign Affairs Ministry and Anna Radwan-Röhrenschef, Chair of the Polish Foundation.

The Alcide de Gasperi Foundation is organising an international seminar in Rome on 10th December on the theme of "The Political Unity of Europe as a tool of international balance, stability and peace in the world," in which Jean-Dominique Giuliani, Chairman of the Robert Schuman Foundation will take part.

Jean-Dominique Giuliani, chairman of the Robert Schuman Foundation will be in Riga on 23rd November to take part in a conference organised by the Latvian Foreign Ministry on "the Baltic States and the European Union's Neighbourhood Policy." He will speak on "political dialogue on a parliamentary level, a tool in the European Neighbourhood Policy."

On October 14th and 15th, the Chairman of the Robert Schuman Foundation, Jean-Dominique Giuliani, was in Riga participating in a conference entitled "Europe at a crossroads: the agenda from Riga to Bucharest". The conference focused on the main challenges facing NATO and European Union Member States. The chairman of the Foundation will spoke both about the issue of borders, and about the values of the European project.

The next meeting of the Club rhénan, a Franco-German forum created by Joachim Bitterlich and Jean-Dominique Giuliani, will be held on October 10th in Berlin. The main topics of the meeting will be the economic policy of the European Union and relations between the European Union and Russia. The event is made possible by support from the Robert Schuman and Konrad Adenauer foundations, and will welcome as guest of honor Wolfgang Schäuble, Germany's Federal Minister of the Interior.

On September 20th, the Robert Schuman Foundation is organising, with the cooperation of the Franco-German relations program of the DGAP (German Council on Foreign Affairs), a conference covering perspectives on French policy towards Europe under the Sarkozy presidency. The chairman of the Foundation, Jean-Dominique Giuliani and Joachim Bitterlich, former ambassador and executive vice-president for international affairs of the Veolia Environnement group in Paris, will each speak to open the debate.

The Chairman of the Robert Schuman Foundation, Jean-Dominique Giuliani, participated to the 17th Economic Forum of Krynica, which took place from 5th to the 8th September. More than 300 people from 60 countries took part in the forum, whose motto is: "Europe: crisis, change or chance?". The Chairman of the Foundation took part in a plenary session and in a roundtable discussion on enlargement.

The Chairman of the Robert Schuman Foundation, Jean Dominique Giuliani, participated on August 26th and 27th to the "Bled Strategic Forum" which dealt with the main challenges of the European Union in 2020: "enlarging and integrating". This conference took place in presence of the Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa and of many European high-ranking leaders.

Jean-Dominique Giuliani, chairman of the Foundation, and Alain Lancelot, president of the Scientific council, participated in the Franco-Italian Forum in Florence from June 22-23. The discussions centered on immigration and integration and were entitled "From the dusk of the Chirac era to the dawn of Sarkozy's reform", and "Recent developments in French immigration and integration policy".

The chairman of the Foundation, Jean-Dominique Giuliani, participated in "Communicating Europe: the European dimension of information", a conference dealing with the ways in which civil society's decision makers shape Europe's public sphere.