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2005-2002
Summaries & speeches from past events

6 December 2005 Conference: La reconstruction et la réconciliation. Address given by H.E. Mr. Pierre Nkurunziza, President of Burundi - Summary and related links.
5 December 2005 Conference: The vital Partnership at Half Past Bush: Europe stalled, America Challenged. Address given by Prof. Simon Serfaty, Director of the European CSIS programme - Summary and related links.
1 December 2005 Conference: Model United Nations organised by VVN (Belgium) with the support of IRRI-KIIB - Confernce Note (Fr) - Nota (Nl).
1 December 2005 Seminar: Economic relations between Belgium and South Africa - Conference note | Speeches.
29 November 2005 Conference: Albania - the project of a transformation. Address given by H.E. Dr. Sali Berisha, Prime Minister of the Republic of Albania- Speech and related links.
18 November 2005 Conference: L'Afrique face au défi de la paix et de la sécurité. Address given by H.E. Amadou Toumani Toure, President of Mali - Summary and related links.
17 Oct. 2005 Déjeuner débat: Regional and international developments after the disengagement  Address given by Prof. Dr. Dan Schueftan, Deputy Director of the National Security Study Center, Haifa University, Israel Summary and related links.
13 Oct. 2005 Breakfast meeting: South American community of nations.
Address given by H.E. Alejandro Toledo, President of the Republic of Peru- Speech | Summary and related links.
11 Oct.2005 Conference: Culture as instrument of external policy. Address given by Prof. Federico Mayor Zaragoza, Former Director General of the UNESCO - Summary and related links.
6 Oct. 2005 Conference: Croatia's accession to the EU: 3 D view (Determination, Dynamics, Dialogue). Address given by H.E. Mrs. Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Croatia - Summary and related links.
13 Sept. 2005 Seminar: Belgium and South Africa - Partners in Africa - Speeches.
12 July 2005 Conference: Women empowerment in Pakistan. Address given by Dr. Attya Inayatullah, Member of Parliament in Pakistan and Member of the Executive Board of Unesco: her presentation. On 13 July after 16:00 radio interview with Dr. Inayatullah on www.dw-world.de (selection of language: urdu).
23 June 2005 Conference: Iraq: from dictatorship to Democracy. Address given by H.E. Hoshiar Zebari, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iraq: Speech. | The Q&A session.
Opening address by K. De Gucht.
20 June 2005 Conference: Gaza withdrawal and the future of the Palestinian state. Address given by Mr. Maen R. Areikat, Director General of the Negotiations Affairs Department of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation - Summary and related links.
15 June 2005 Conference: From Presidential Wars to American Hegemony: the constitution after  9/11. Address given by Lou Fisher, Senior specialist in American National Government - Speech.
14 June 2005 Roundtable: Embattled or empowered Africa: our common interest - Speeches.
6-7 June 2005 Conference: Power to the System − The UN-Level Panel and the Reinvigoration of Collective Security. Opening address given by Prime Minister G. Verhofstadt. Other speeches will be published in Studia Diplomatica.
26 May 2005 Conference: Reform and Democracy in the Arab World and the Role of the European Union. Address given by H.E. Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassim Bin Jabr Al-Thani, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the State of Qatar - Speech.
24 May 2005 Conference: Reinventing NATO. Does the Alliance reflect the changing nature of transatlantic security? - Programme.
-Keynote address by NATO Secretary General, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer,
-Keynote address session 2 by the Chairman of the NATO Military Committee, General Harald Kujat.
13 May 2005 Conference: 2005 Conference on the future of EU-Andean Community Relations: view the programme and read the presentations.
11 May 2005 Conference: Afghanistan: outlook for the future.
Address given by H.E. Hamid Karzai, President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan: Summary and related links.
2 May 2005 Conference: The broad lines of a strategy to change Africa with Ousmane Sy, Winner of the King Baudouin International Development Prize 2004-2005, Director of CEPIA, the Centre for Political and Institutional Expertise in Africa, Regional Coordinator of the network Dialogue on governance in Africa, Bamako - Mali.
Text of his speech (EN) - texte de son discours (FR) - zijn speech (NL).
27 April 2005 Conference: Democratic transition in Peru & international cooperation. Address given by Dr. Oscar Schiappa-Pietra, Head of the Peruvian Agency for International Cooperation - APCI: summary.
8 April 2005 Presentation of the report: Asian Development Outlook 2005. Presented by J-P Verbiest, Assistant Chief Economist of the ADB + Panel discussion - Speeches.
7 April 2005 Expert Seminar: Focus on Kazakhstan: Speeches | Summary
18 March 2005  Expert Seminar: The Millennium Development Goals: over-ambition or under-investment? - Speeches.
17 March 2005 High Level Seminar: Weapons of Mass Destruction. Legal issues and challenges for the 2005 NPT Review Conference - A transatlantic dialogue:
-speech of Karel De Gucht: Minister of Foreign Affairs,
-speech of Nobuyasu Abe, Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs, United Nations.
15 March 2005 Conference The European potentials of Serbia and Montenegro. Address given by H.E. Mr. Vuk Draskovic, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia and Montenegro - Summary.
18 Feb. 2005 Colloquium, academic session: Les questions d'actualité en Europe - Programme of colloquium and presentations |Programme of academic session and presentations.
4 Feb. 2005 Seminar: Global treats, challenges and change - Speeches.
26 Jan. 2005 Conference: Dynamics of Pakistan's Foreign Policy in the new World Order. Address given by H.E. Mr. Shaukat Aziz, Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan - Speech | Summary and related links.
13 Jan. 2005 Conference: Transatlantic Relations: a German Perspective. Address given by Mr. Karsten Voïgt, Coordination of German-American Cooperation at the German Federal Foreign Office - Speech | Summary.
25-27 Nov. 2004 Fifth Belgo-British Conference Ensuring Europe's prosperity - Building Bridges - Speeches.
20 Oct. 2004 Presentation: Securing the 21st Century. Address given by James D. Wolfensohn, President of the World Bank - Speech.
19 Oct.2004 Conference: The future of NATO: a Canadian approach. Address given by H.E. Ambassador Jean-Pierre Juneau, Canada's Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Council - Speech.
7-8 Oct. 2004 Colloquium: Islam, Society, Modernity - Speeches.
22 Sept. 2004 Conference: Social entrepreneurship: less government and more results - Speeches.
26 May 2004 Conference: Will the Lisbon-strategy fail?
- Philippe Maystadt, President of the European Investment Bank: his speech,
- Daniel Gros, Director CEPS: his speech,
- Paul De Grauwe, KU Leuven: his speech.
18 May 2004 Conference: The United Nations and the European Union: An Ever Stronger Partnership - Speeches.
7 May 2004 IRRI -KIIB/ EPC Joint Dialogue: Integrating Europe: Multiple speeds - One direction?: see EPC Working Paper n° 9, Integrating Europe. Multiple speeds - One direction? (April 2004).
8 April 2004 Colloquium: EU and Islam. The Turkish Model - Summary.
29 March 2004 Conference: Micro-economic consequences of EU enlargement - Executive summary.
STUDIEGROEP VOOR EUROPESE POLITIEK (SEP)- GROUPE D'ETUDES POLITIQUES EUROPEENNES (GEPE), Les conséquences micro-économiques de l'élargissement de l'Union européenne - De micro-economische gevolgen van de uitbreiding van de Europese Unie - Etude commanditée par l'Institut Royal des Relations Internationales (IRRI) et la Fédération des entreprises de Belgique (FEB). Studie in opdracht van het Koninklijk voor Internationale Betrekkingen (KIIB) en het Verbond Van Belgische Ondernemingen (VBO).
Sous la direction du / Onder leiding van Prof. Sylvain Plasschaert (Universiteit Antwerpen (UFSIA) en KULeuven).
 25 March 2004 Colloquium: Le recrutement des terroristes - Summary.
16 March 2004 Colloquium: Able & Willing? Does Europe have the means to stage a military operation if it wants to? Organisation: IRRI-KIIB, IRSD - Proceedings
9 Feb. 2004 Conference Colombia: a democracy that takes up the challenge of economic growth. Translation of the speech given by Mr. Alvaro Uribe Velez, President of the Republic of Colombia - Speech.
3 Feb. 2004 Conference: L'Europe du Sud-Est sur la voie de son intégration dans l'Union européenne. Address given by Bernard Snoy, Directeur Working Table II - Reconstruction Economique - Développement et Coopération au Pacte de Stabilité pour l'Europe du Sud-Est - Speech.
21 Jan. 2004 Conference: Disarmament, non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, the chemical weapons case. Address given by M. Rogelio Pfirter, Directeur général de l'Organisation pour l'interdiction des armes chimiques - Speech.
10 Dec. 2003 Lunch debate: Europe: value & challenges. Address given by the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic - Speech.
5 Dec. 2003 Conference: Romania in the EU: what value added? From regional stability to the strengthening of the Union's role in the world. Address given by the Romanian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mircea Geoana - Speech
1 Dec. 2003 Conference: Can the Tigers change their stripes to survive the New Environment?. Address given by Jacques Verbiest, Deputy Chief Economist of the Asian Development Bank - Speech.
26 Nov. 2003 Presentation of the IRRI-KIIB document and debate with L. Michel, J. Solana, Vte Davignon, Prof. Coolsaet: A European Security Concept for the 21st Century - Speeches.
20 Nov. 2003 Colloquium about Terrorism - PART I : Why 9-11? The root causes of international terrorism - Speeches.
30 Oct. 2003 Conference: The major geopolitical challenges of Central Asia today. Address given by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan, Dr. Tokaev - Speech.
21 Oct. 2003 Debate with M. Olivier Kamitatu, President of the  'Assemblée nationale de transition du Congo': L'Assemblée nationale congolaise de transition: instrument essentiel dans la reconstruction de l'État - Summary.
30 Sept. 2003 Conference: Small Nation Diplomacy: OMAN in the Age of Globalisation, address given by His Excellency Sayyid Badr bin Hamad bin Hamood Al-Busaidi, Undersecretary for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Sultanate of Oman - Summary.
18 Sept. 2003 Seminar: Will the EGC deliver the Europe we need?. Summary of the proceedings: click here.

Panel I: Internal Policy: the economic & social agenda. Background Paper. 18 September. 2003,
Panel II: External Policy: CFSP/ESDP and trade agenda.  Background Paper. 18 September. 2003,
Panel III: Legitimacy: Bringing the institutions closer to the citizens. Background Paper. 18 September. 2003.

24 June 2003 Conference: Enlarging the European Marketplace - Risks and Opportunities in the EU's 25-nation Single Market
Conference Keynote Addresses:
-Annemie Neyts, Belgian Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister in Charge of Agriculture: her speech,
-Louis Michel, Belgian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs: his speech.

Conference report: see: http://www.forum-europe.com/publication/SOD_FINAL.pdf.
23 June 2003 Conference: Empire: America's desire or Europe's Default?. Address given by Henry Nau, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, Eliott School of International Relations, George Washington University (USA) - Speech.
23 May 2003 Colloquium: Core Group, Directoire, Enhanced Cooperation? Finding the Key to an Effective Foreign and Defence Policy for Europe - Speeches.
21 May 2003 Seminar in the presence of the King of Norway and Prince Philippe of Belgium:
Peace mediation and reconciliation.
09 April 2003 Colloque: Belgique- Amérique latine - Caraïbes. Address given by Louis Michel, the Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs: his speech - French text | his speech - Dutch text.
12 Feb. 2003 Luncheon: The present and future borders of Europe given by his Excellency Mr. Dimitrij Rupel, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Slovenia - Summary.
11 Feb. 2003 Conference: What Croatia can offer to the UNITED EUROPE? given by the President of Croatia, Stjepan MESIC - Summary.
22 Jan. 2003 Working lunch. Discours: Panorama de la politique argentine dans une période de crise given by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Argentina, Carlos Federico Ruckauf - Speech.
20 Jan. 2003 Conference: The Israel-Palestinian conflict: how to re-launch peace negotiations?
- Opening address given by Louis Michel, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belgium.
13 -14  Dec. 2002 Seminar: Geopolitics and new international criminality.
Introduction given by Armand De Decker, Président du Sénat de Belgique - Speech.
11 Dec. 2002 Conference with the President Abd. Bouteflika: Le dialogue des civilisations - Speech.
28 Nov. 2002 Conference: Security concepts of the EU and NATO - The point of view of Slovakia - Conference report.
15 Oct. 2002 Conference: One Year after September 11: How credible are Europe's anti-terrorism defences?. PDF document from Forum Europe - Speech.
3-4 July 2002 Symposium: The Convention about the future of the EU - Speeches.

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