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09h30-09h40 Welcome Remarks :
Dominique DAVID, Adviser to the Executive Chairman, French Institute for International Relations (Ifri) and Chair, Austro-French Centre for Rapprochement in Europe
Jacob WISNIEWSKI, Special Adviser to the President, GLOBSEC
09h40-09h50 Keynote Interventions
Tomas KOZAK, Director General, Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, Slovakia
09h50-11h00 Towards a European Strategic Autonomy: Strengthening Capacity Where It Matters"
Kick-off speakers:
Claude-France ARNOULD, Special Advisor for European Affairs to the President, French Institute for International Relations (Ifri)
Danielle PIATKIEWICZ, Research Fellow , EUROPEUM
Edouard SIMON, Research Director, French Institute fore International and Strategic Affairs (IRIS)
Marcin ZABOROWSKI, Policy Director, GLOBSEC
Led by :
Vladislava GUBALOVA, Senior Fellow, GLOBSEC
11h30-12h30 "EU'S Approach towards Strategic Partners: Improving, Securing, Redefining"
Kick-off speakers:
Elena POTPODOROVA, Vice President The Atlantic Club
Elin SCHIFFER, Project Manager, Atlantic Council
Roland FREUDENSTEIN, VP and Head, GLOBSEC Brussels
Velina TCHAKAROVA, Director, Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy (AIES)
Led by :
Georgina WRIGHT, Senior Fellow and Directeur, Institut Montaigne
This event is a part of GLOBSEC project GEOPE - "Geopolitical Europe: are the EU member-states ready for it?", and it is supported by Jean Monnet Activities of the EU programme Erasmus+
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