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Overview of the Programme

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007-01-02

Thursday, March 22nd, 2007

Friday, March 23rd, 2007

   
until 13.45 Arrival
   
13.55

Opening of the congress
Barbara Gessler, Head of the Regional Representative Office of the European Commission in Bonn

   
14.00

Stimulative lecture
Michael Breuer MdL, Minister for Federal and European Affairs of the Federal State of North-Rhine Westphalia

   
14.30

Introduction to the congress
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Elvert, University of Cologne

   
14.45
until 16.30
Sektion 1: Early Modern Times
Chairing and stimulative lecture:
Prof. Dr. Mathias Asche, Tübingen
Lecturers:
Dr. Caspar Hirschi, Fribourg
Prof. Dr. Alfred Kohler, Vienna
Vladimir von Schnurbein, Tübingen
   
16.30 Coffee break
   
16.45
until 18.30
Section 2: The 19th and 20th Centuries
Chairing and stimulative lecture:
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Elvert, Cologne
Lecturers:
Dr. Vanessa Conze, Tübingen
Prof. Dr. Wolf. D. Gruner, Rostock
PD Dr. Guido Müller, Stuttgart
   
20.00

Evening Lecture in the Town Hall of the Federal City of Bonn
in co-operation with the City of Bonn

Message of greetings: OB Bärbel Dieckmann, Mayor

Lecture:
“Do European Politics Need a New Model of Europe?”
Dr. iur. Jaques Santer, Luxembourg

Then: reception

 
   
09.00
until 10.45
Section 3: Examples from the Integration Area
Chairing and stimulative lecture:
Prof. Dr. Michael Salewski, Kiel
Lecturers:
Dr. Birgit Aschmann, Kiel
Prof. Dr. Klaus Larres, Coleraine
Prof. Dr. Stephan Michael Schröder, Cologne
   
10.45 Coffee break
   
11.00
until 12.45

Section 4 : Examples from Eastern Central and Eastern Europe
Chairing and stimulative lecture:
Prof. Dr. Martin Schulze Wessel, Munich
Lecturers:
Dr. Dietlind Hüchtker, Leipzig
Prof. Dr. Claudia Kraft, Erfurt
Dr. Veronika Wendland, Munich

   
12.45 Lunch break
   
15.00
until 17.00
Section 5: Current Economic Models
Chairing and stimulative lecture: Prof. Dr. Werner Bührer, Munich
Lecturers:
Prof. Dr. André Steiner, Potsdam
Prof. Dr. Guido Thiemeyer, Kassel
Dr. Miléne A. Wegmann, Berne
   
20.00 Lecturers´ dinner
 
   
09.00
until 10.45
Section 6: The View from Outside Europe
Chairing and stimulative lecture: Prof. Dr. Fikret Adanir, Bochum
Lecturers:
Prof. Dr. Walter L. Bernecker, Erlangen-Nürnberg
Prof. Dr. Reinhard Zöllner, Erfurt
   
10.45 Coffee break
   
11.15
until 13.00

Panel discussion on the question: “What is the Current Model for Europe?”

Chairing: Dr. Romain Kirt, Conseiller de Gouvernement, Luxembourg 

Michael Mertes. Secretary of State for Federal and European Affairs, Plenipotentiary of The Federal State of NRW at the Federal Republic, Düsseldorf

Prof. Michael Rutz, editor-in-chief “Rheinischer Merkur”, Bonn
 
Dr. Michaele Schreyer, former EU Commissioner, Vice-President of the Netzwerk Europäische Bewegung (Network European Movement), Germany, Berlin

Bülent Sengün, editor-in-chief „Zukunft“, Offenbach

Roge de Weck, publicist, Zürich/Berlin