Enlargement of the EU. A Challenge for What?

 

Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Research Institute of Ethnic and National Minorities
1014 Budapest, Országház u. 30.

ENLARGEMENT OF THE EU - A CHALLENGE FOR WHAT?

29-30 September 2005, Budapest
RIENM, Jakobinus Conference Room

The workshop is an integrative part of the EU6 framework research programme 'Challenge - The Changing Landscape of European Liberty and Security' (2004-2008). This working package including research institutes, scholars from Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria and Malta covers on short-term and long-term impacts of enlargement on regional and neighbourhood contacts, public order, security issues, as well as national identity aspects. The event would provide a direct exchange of views on methods and analysis of effects, selection of data or a debate on existing results after the first year of the joint work.

29th September

11.30 - 12.00 Registration

12.00 - 13.00 Introduction session

Welcoming - László Szarka (Director of the Institute)

The major tracks and traps of the ongoing research - Judit Tóth (Research leader)

Publicity of the researching activity - András Kováts (Research fellow, RIENM)

Buffet lunch

14.00 - 16.30 Regional impacts and their measuring
Chair: Dr. István Sértõ-Radics (Committee of the Regions, Head of delegation)

The relevance of the neighbourhood and regional policy of the EU from the CEE countries - Balázs Vizi (Research fellow, RIENM)

Available data, types of data and their applicability for analysis of revitalisation of regions according to the lessons on Eastern border of Hungary: A methodological proposal - Prof. Béla Baranyi (Director of Regional Research Institute, HAS)

Case studies on short term impacts and preconditions of cross-border co-operation with neighbours - Franziska Schubert (Corvinus University of Budapest) and Csaba Smik (freelance researcher)

Discussion


30th September

9.30 - 11.00 Impacts of Visa policy - Expectations and Reality
Chair: Mattila Heikki (Regional Project Development Officer, Region Office of IOM)

Joint efforts of Visegrád Group and visa for adjacent countries’ people - Representative of the government [not confirmed]

The Polish experiences of visa policy and securitization - Agnieszka Weinar (PhD Student, junior researcher, Batory Foundation and Warsaw University)

The consequences of aligning visa policy in the process of accession: the case of Bulgaria - Angelina Tchorbadjiyska (Expert of JHA, European Institute)

The experiences of applicants - Luca Váradi (ELTE)

Discussion

Coffee break

11.30 - 13.30 Public Order and Security contra New-born Rule of Law?
Chair: Regional representative of ICRC [not confirmed]

Are there any specific elements of this contradiction in CEE? Dilemmas for the Constitutional Courts - Prof. Gábor Halmai (Director of Hungarian Human Rights and Documentation Centre)

Legal status and Entitlement of police, security services and border guards in fight against terrorism in Hungary - István Szikinger (Lecturer at Central European University)

What is the ethnic profile of perpetrators? Data protection and prejudices - Pap András (Lecturer at Kodolányi János University College)

Can the renegade flight be shot remaining inside the international and constitutional law? - Gábor Sulyok (Research fellow, Institute for Legal Research, HAS)

Discussion

Buffet lunch

14.30 - 16.30 National, Regional or/and European Identity
Chair: Ambassador of Poland in Budapest [not confirmed]

How the identity can be approached in the European Parliament? - Kinga Gál (Member of the European Parliament)

Ethnical renaissance, nation building or conflicts in the periphery of the EU - Zoltán Kántor (Teleki Foundation and chief editor of Regio)

Innovation of public law in favour of kin-minorities in CEE - Balázs Majtényi (Research fellow, Institute for Legal Research, HAS)

Regional development, ethnicity and neighbourhood policy - Erika Törzsök (Political adviser of the Minister of Foreign Affairs)

Discussion

16.30 Summary - Judit Tóth