Direct Neighbourhood - cross-border cooperation and European integration

L'viv, October 4-6, 2000

conference organised in co-operation with:

BERTELSMANN GROUP FOR POLICY RESEARCH, Munich;
INTERNATIONAL DEPARTMENT, City Council, L`viv
NGO JI, Lviv

L'vivska Politechnika
S. Bandery-Str. 12
79013 L`viv

conference languages: German, English, Ukrainian

PROGRAMME

Wednesday, October 4, 2000

Welcome

Valeriy Pjatak
Deputy Mayor, City of L'viv

Taras Vozniak
Director, International Department, City Council, L'viv

Volodymyr Panschyschyn
Director, Dept. For International Relations, Region Council, L'viv

Cornelius Ochmann
Director Central and Eastern Europe, Bertelsmann Foundation, Guetersloh

Thursday, October 5, 2000

Cross-border cooperation and European integration

Chair:
Cornelius Ochmann
Director Central and Eastern Europe, Bertelsmann Foundation, Guetersloh

Iris Kempe
Senior Analyst, Bertelsmann Group for Policy Research, Center for Applied Policy Research, Ludwig Maximilians-University, Munich

Andriy Vesselovsky
Director, Policy Analysis and Planning, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Kyiv

Comment:
Shlomo Avineri
Director, Institute for European Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem;
Former Director-General of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Jerusalem

Discussion

The L`viv region: political, economic and societal initiatives and experiences of cross-border cooperation

Chair:
Bohdan Hawrylyshyn
Chairman, International Center for Policy Studies, Kyiv

Volodymyr Panschyschyn
Director, Dept. For International Relations, Region Council, L'viv

Walter Mossmann
Author, “Gespraeche ueber Grenzen”, Freiburg /L'viv

Comment:
Volkhart Vincentz
Deputy Director, Economic Dept., Institute for Eastern European Affairs, Munich

Discussion

Ukrainian-Polish Border as the future Eastern Border of the EU

Chair:

Iris Kempe
Senior Analyst, Bertelsmann Group for Policy Research, Center for Applied Policy Research, Ludwig Maximilians-University, Munich

Mykola Horuzhyj
Deputy Head of North-Western Direction HQ of Border Guard of Ukraine, Head of Border Control Dept., L'viv

Zbigniew Wojciechowski
Vice-President, City of Lublin

Comment:
Christian Meier
Federal Institute for Eastern European and International Studies, Cologne

Discussion

Friday, October 6, 2000

Regional cooperation as concept for Central and Eastern Europe?

Chair:
Shlomo Avineri
Director, Institute for European Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Former Director-General of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Jerusalem

Ion Sturza
Former Prime Minister of the Republic of Moldova, Chisinau

Iveta Sulca
Director, EU Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia, Riga

Comment:
Eiki Berg
Dept. of Political Science, Tartu University

Discussion

Policy recommendations: How could best practices be implemented?

Chair:
Cornelius Ochmann
Director Central and Eastern Europe, Bertelsmann Foundation, Guetersloh

Bohdan Hawrylyshyn
Chairman, International Center for Policy Studies, Kyiv

Dieter Bingen
Director, German Institute for Polish Affairs, Darmstadt

Stanislaw Ciosek
Ambassador, Advisor to the President of the Republic of Poland on Eastern European Affairs, Warsaw