Becoming Europe. From solidarity to the European integration of the Balkans and Turkey
The European Union, Nobel Peace Prize, measures in the Balkans and in Turkey the strength of his political project. The legacy of the nineties and the challenges of the present. Scholars, journalists, politicians and diplomats will discuss this topic. Closing event of the project "Tell Europe to Europe" supported by the European Commission and by the Autonomous Province of Trento
In 2013, the year of Croatia's entry into the European Union as 28th member state, Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso (OBC) and ten European partners are committed to disseminate knowledge and stimulate public debate about the Balkans and Turkey in the European public opinion.
During the closing event of the project, internationally renowned experts will discuss the most relevant issues of the EU's enlargement process towards South Eastern Europe: the democratization and stabilization of the Balkans, the complex relationship between the EU and Turkey, and the open issues that the EU, as a political project stabilization and pacification, is faced with its neighbors in a time of deep economic crisis, political and cultural.
PROGRAMME
8:30-9:00 | Registration of the partecipants
9:00-9:45 | Opening
Giuliano BERNINI, Deputy-Rector for international relations, University of Bergamo
Franco TENTORIO, Mayor of Bergamo
Fabrizio SPADA, Director, Representative office of the European Commission in Milan
Patrizia GRAZIANI, Manager, Bergamo territorial Unit for Education
9:45-11:00 | PANEL I - The anti-war activism in the Balkans
chair: Luisa CHIODI, Scientific director, Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso
speakers:
Andrea VALESINI, Journalist, L'Eco di Bergamo
Marco ABRAM, Researcher, Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso
Vesna JANKOVIĆ, Researcher, University of Zagreb
11.00-11:30 | COFFEE BREAK
11:30-13:00 | PANEL II - The EU enlargement: open issues
chair: Stefania GANDOLFI, Unesco Chair, University of Bergamo
speakers:
Ioanna KUÇURADI, Unesco Chair, University of Maltepe, Turkey
Tim JUDAH, Journalist, The Economist
Andrea Lorenzo CAPUSSELA, Economist, European Union Advisor
13:00-14:30 | LUNCH
14:30-16:15 | ROUND TABLE - Missing Europe
chair: Luigi RIVA, Foreign affairs editor, L'Espresso
speakers:
Pia LOCATELLI, Member of the Italian Parliament, President of Zaninoni Foundation
Ettore SEQUI, Ambassador of the European Union to Albania
Aleksandra MIJALKOVIĆ, Journalist, Politika, Serbia
Michele NARDELLI, President of the Trentino Forum for Peace and Human Rights
Michele BRUNELLI, Unesco Chair, University of Bergamo
16:20-17:00 | CONCLUSIONS
Gian Gabriele VERTOVA, Deputy President of Fondazione Serughetti La Porta
INFO:
Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso
0464 424230
eventi@balcanicaucaso.org
Fondazione Serughetti La Porta
info@laportabergamo.it
