Seminario: 'One year after the Arab Spring: The European Union’s relations with the Southern-Mediterranean region'

Thursday,  10 May 2012

14.00 – 14.30 Registration
14.30 – 14.45 Welcome and Opening
14.45 – 15.15 Keynote address
The role of the Union for the Mediterranean in promoting stability and transition in the Southern-Mediterranean region , Ambassador Yigit Alpogan, Deputy Secretary General of the Union for the Mediterranean.
15.15 – 16.30 PANEL 1. “A new response to a changing Neighbourhood” the 2011 ENP review
Chair: Elina Viilup (CIDOB, Barcelona) 
 -  Article 8 TEU: Developing a ‘special relationship’ with neighbouring countries
(Prof. Christophe Hillion, University of Stockholm, CLEER)
-  The Arab Uprisings: In Search of a Comprehensive EU Strategy (Prof. Jan Wouters, University of Leuven)
-  The new European Neighbourhood Instrument and the twisted philosophy of ‘more for more’ conditionality (Prof. Steven Blockmans, University of Leuven, T.M.C. Asser Instituut/CLEER)
16.30 – 17.00 Q&A / Discussion

Friday, 11 May 2012

9.30 - 10.45 PANEL 2: Ties with the region: ad hoc, bilateral and multilateral approaches (EUROMED, Neighbourhood Policy, Union for the Mediterranean)
Chair: Prof. Steven Blockmans (University of Leuven, T.M.C. Asser Instituut/CLEER)
- The Union for the Mediterranean: Challenges and prospects (Prof. José Manuel Cortés Martín, Professor at Universidad Pablo de Olavide)
- Frameworks and instruments of economic cooperation between the EU and Southern Mediterranean (Prof. Larbi Jaidi, Professor and researcher at the Faculty of Legal, Economic and Social Sciences of Mohammed V University, Rabat) (confirmed)
-  Fostering region building and promoting interregionalism (Dr. Nikos Skoutaris, Assistant Professor, Maastricht University, CLEER)
10.45 - 11. 15 Q&A / Discussion
11.15 - 11.45 Coffee/ tea break
11.45 - 13.00 PANEL 3: Select issues of Europe’s Mediterranean strategy
Chair: Francisco Fonseca (European Commission representation in Spain)
- The EU response to the Arab uprisings (Ahmed Driss, Director, Centre for Mediterranean and International Studies)
- EU responses on migration, mobility and security in the Southern-Mediterranean region
(Dr. Sergio Carrera, CEPS, Brussels)
- EU's relations with southern Mediterranean civil society actors: continuity or change? (Elisabeth Johansson-Nogués, Ramon y Cajal Researcher at the Institut Barcelona de Estudis Internacionals)
13.00 – 13.30 Q&A / Discussion
13.30 Closing remarks
13.45 Lunch/Reception