29 - 30 April 2005, Rabat, Morocco 

EuroMeSCo Annual Conference

EMP Priorities: Gearing up to 2015

Organized by: EuroMeSCo Secretariat, Lisbon, Portugal, Organised in collaboration with the Groupement d’Etudes et de Recherches sur la Méditerranée (GERM) and the Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches en Sciences Sociales (CERSS) from Rabat.


Attended by : Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi, Head of PASSIA

09:30   Opening Session

Tayeb Fassi-Fihri, Minister Delegate, Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Co-operation, Rabat

Habib El-Malki, Minister of Education, President of GERM, Rabat

Álvaro Vasconcelos, Director, IEEI, Lisbon

European Personality, name to come

10:00   The Future of Barcelona – Inclusion with Diversity

Introductory remarks:    Abdallah Saaf, Director, CERSS, Rabat

Comments:                   Mehmet Aydin, Minister of State, Ankara

11:30   Coffee break

12:00   The EMP in a New Context

            Introductory remarks :   Roberto Aliboni, IAI, Rome

Comments:   Abdel Joli Saubri, Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Co-operation, Rabat   
                               Lena Kolarska-Bobinska, Director, Institute of Public Affairs, Warsaw

13:30  Lunch

15:00   Working Group Sessions [Simultaneous]

1 –The Neighbourhood Policy and the Future of the Barcelona Process

Moderator:       Abdel Raouf El Reedy, Chairman, ECFA, Cairo

Panel:              Tobias Schumacher, Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies, EUI,  Florence

                       Michael Emerson, CEPS, Brussels

Jalel Trabelsi, Assistant Director for the EU, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Tunis

Rapporteur:       Nadim Shehadi, Director, CLS, Oxford

2 – Civil Society, Political Actors and Transition to Democracy

Moderator:         Fifi Benaboud, North South Centre, Lisbon

Panel:                Marc Schade Poulsen, EMHRN, Copenhagen

 Gema Martin Muñoz, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

 Rachdi Abdelmaksoud, Euromed Platform, Rabat

Rapporteur:       Muriel Asseburg, SWP, Berlin

3 – Immigrants as EMP Actors

Moderator:        Lofti Boumghar, INESG, Alger

Panel:               Latifa Aït-Baala, Belgian Parliament, Brussels

Mohamed Haneche, Director General of European Department, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Algiers

Catherine Wihtol de Wenden, CERI, Paris

Rapporteur:       Andreu Claret, IEMed, Barcelona

4 – Current Challenges to Security Cooperation in the Civilian and Military Fields

Moderator:         Emily Landau, JCSS, Tel Aviv

Panel:                Seyfi Tashan, Director, FPI, Ankara

                         André Janier, Ambassador, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Paris

Rapporteur:        Mohamed Kadry Said, ACPSS, Cairo

16:30   Coffee break

16:45  Working Groups – Second session

09:00   The Barcelona Agenda: Gearing up for 2015

Introductory remarks:    Working Group Rapporteurs

Comments:                    Juan Prat, Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Co-operation, Madrid

 Mahdi Abdul Hadi, Director, PASSIA, Jerusalem

11:00   Coffee break

11:30   Closing Session

Ashraf Rashed, Assistant Minister for European Affairs, Cairo

Laura Baeza, General Directorate for External Relations, European Commission, Brussels

Fouad Ammor, GERM, Rabat, chairman, EuroMeSCo General Assembly

13:30   Lunch

15:00   EuroMeSCo General Assembly [members and observers only]