Programme

1 June 2022

Bluepoint, Bd Auguste Reyers 80, 1030 Brussels

9.00 – 10.30 CET

Entrance hall

REGISTRATION

10.30 – 12.00 CET

Lab sessions

Galilei

SPECIAL SESSION: THE ECONOMIC OUTLOOK FOR UKRAINE: FROM SURVIVAL TO RECONSTRUCTION

Polina Yarova, Director of Debt Policy Department, Ministry of Finance of Ukraine

Annika Eriksgaar, Director for international economic and financial relations, global governance, European Commission

Ivan Fedorovn, Mayor of Melitopol City, Zaporizhia region

Mykhailo Netiazhuk, Mayor of Fastiv City, Kyiv region

Serhiy Kiral, Deputy Mayor, Lviv City Council, Lviv region

Oleksii Fokardi, Entrepreneur, Melitopol

Denys Kudin, First Deputy Minister of Economy of Ukraine

Sergii Marchenko, the Minister of Finance of Ukraine

Moderator: Daniel Gros, Member of the Board and Distinguished Fellow, CEPS

Newton B/C

STRENGTHENING THE EU AS A GLOBAL GOVERNANCE ACTOR: LESSONS FROM THE PANDEMIC AND THE WAR IN UKRAINE

Anthony Teasdale, Director General, European Parliamentary Research Service, European Parliament

Sieglinde Gstöhl, Director of Studies – EU International Relations and Diplomacy, College of Europe

Niklas Helwig, Leading Researcher, Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)

Gaby Umbach, Part-time Professor, European University Institute (EUI)

Moderator: Andrea Renda, Senior Research Fellow and Head of Global Governance, Regulation, Innovation & Digital Economy, CEPS

Copernic

DOES EU MIGRATION DIPLOMACY WORK?

Rados Djurovic, Executive Director, Asylum Protection Center, Serbia

Meltem Ineli-Ciger, Assistant Professor, Suleyman Demirel University

Fatma Raach, President, Tunisian Association for International Law

Thomas Spijkerboer, Professor of Migration Law, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Simonida Kacarska, Director and co-founder, European Policy Institute

Moderator: Lina Vosyliūtė, Research Fellow, CEPS

Darwin

FUTURE SCENARIOS FOR GLOBAL HEALTH SECURITY GOVERNANCE: HOW TO BREAK THE CYCLE OF ‘PANIC AND NEGLECT'?

Luc Soete, Emeritus Professor, School of Business and Economics, Maastricht University

George Griffin, Immediate Past President, Federation of European Academies of Medicine (FEAM)

Phoebe Tickell, Founder, Moral Imaginations

Pierre Delsaux, Director General of DG HERA, European Commission

Moderator: Nikita Simpson, Postdoctoral Research Officer, London School of Economics (LSE)

Vesalius

INEQUALITIES IN THE TIME OF COVID

Giorgia Menta, Research Associate, LISER

Ivailo Kalfin, Managing Director, Eurofound

Marcel Smolka, Professor of International Economics, University of Flensburg

Michael Christl, Economic and Policy Analyst, DG ECFIN, European Commission

Moderator: Cinzia Alcidi, Director of Research, CEPS

Huygens

SOCIAL INVESTMENT IN THE EU: POLICY SHIFT OR SMOKE AND MIRRORS?

Sacha Garben, Professor, College of Europe

Anton Hemerijck, Director of Research, European University Institute (EUI)

Santina Bertulessi, Deputy Head of Cabinet, DG EMPL, European Commission

Francesco Corti, University of Milan and Associate Research Fellow CEPS

Moderator: Katharina Gnath, Senior Project Manager, Bertelsmann Stiftung Foundation

Newton A

VIOLENT EXTREMISM IN ENABLING ENVIRONMENTS: WHY LOCAL RESILIENCE IS MORE ROBUST THAN WE THINK AND HOW WE CAN GO ABOUT SUPPORTING IT

Morten Bøas, Research Professor at NUPI and Principal Investigator of H2020 PREVEX project

Edina Bećirević, Professor at the Faculty of Criminal Justice, Criminology, and Security Studies at the University of Sarajevo

Francesca Pavarini, Policy Specialist, DG NEAR, European Commission

Moderator: Steven Blockmans, Director of Research, CEPS

12.00 – 13.00 CET

Lobby

LUNCH

13.00 – 13.15 CET

Einstein

MESSAGE FROM JOAQUIN ALMUNIA, CHAIRPERSON, CEPS

Joaquin Almunia, Chairperson, CEPS

13.15 – 14.45 CET

Einstein

WHAT DO EUROPEANS EXPECT FROM THE EU NOW: WHAT DO RECENT ELECTIONS AND OPINION POLLS TELL US?

Isabell Hoffmann, Senior Expert, Bertelsmann Stiftung

Tara Varma, Senior Policy Fellow, ECFR

René Repasi, Member of the European Parliament

Olha Stefanishyna, Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine

Eva Maydell, Member of the European Parliament

Daniel Gros, Member of the Board and Distinguished Fellow, CEPS

14.45 – 15.15 CET

Lobby

COFFEE BREAK

15.15 – 16.45 CET

Food for Thought

Marconi

EUROPE'S NEXT REFUGEE CRISIS?

Alexander Sorel, Senior Adviser to the Executive Director, European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA)

Tineke Strik, Member of the European Parliament

Gregor Noll, Professor, University of Gothenburg

Charlotte Slente, Secretary General, DRC

Katarina Lughofer, Justice, Digital and Migration Unit (JDMU), EU Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA)

Stefan Maier, Senior Policy Officer, UNHCR Representation for EU Affairs, Belgium, Luxembourg, Ireland and the Netherlands

Moderator: Sergio Carrera, Senior Research Fellow and Head of Justice and Home Affairs unit, CEPS

Edison

THE IMPLICATIONS OF SOARING ENERGY PRICES AND HOW TO ADDRESS THEM

Erkki Maillard, Senior Vice President European Affairs and Adviser to the CEO, EDF Group

Maarten Verwey, DG ECFIN, European Commission

Juan Sánchez-Peñuela, Energy and Atomic Questions Counsellor, Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge

Catherine Collin, Managerial Advisor, EIB Global

Moderator: Daniel Gros, Member of the Board and Distinguished Fellow, CEPS

Archimedes

THE GEOPOLITICAL IMPLICATIONS OF RUSSIA'S WAR ON UKRAINE

Jie Yu, Senior Research Fellow on China, Asia-Pacific Programme, Chatham House

Bhaswati Mukherjee, Former Ambassador of India to the Netherlands

Nathalie Tocci, Director, Istituto Affari Internazionali

Moderator: Steven Blockmans, Director of Research, CEPS

17.00 – 18.00 CET

Einstein

SPOTLIGHT SESSION: PEACE AND PROSPERITY FOR ALL OF EUROPE – AN IMPOSSIBLE DREAM?

Štěpán Černý, Director-General for European Affairs at the Government Office, Czech Republic

Steven Blockmans, Director of Research, CEPS

Tinatin Akhvlediani, Research Fellow, CEPS