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EPP-ED GROUP STUDY DAYS

23 - 24 March 2004

Hofburg
VIENNA (Austria)

Last update: 18/03/2004


 Photos of the meeting 

Tuesday 23 March 2004

15.00 - 15.30 hrsOpening session

Hans-Gert Poettering MEP, Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament
Ursula Stenzel MEP, Head of the Austrian Delegation of the EPP-ED Group
15.30 - 16.15 hrs What challenges for the European Union until 2010?

Wolfgang Schüssel, Federal Chancellor of the Republic of Austria

Discussion
16.15 - 18.30 hrsTheme I: Reviving the European economy

Chairman: José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra MEP, Vice-Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the EP

Speakers: Klaus Liebscher, Governor of the Austrian National Bank
Mario Monti, Member of the European Commission responsible for Competition
Christoph Leitl, President of Eurochambres

Discussion

Conclusions: Othmar Karas MEP, Treasurer of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament

Wednesday 24 March 2004

09.00 - 09.30 hrs Opening speech

Benita Ferrero-Waldner, Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Austria

09.30 - 11.00 hrs Theme II: Making the EU work: Towards an agreement on the institutional reforms

Chairman: Françoise Grossetête MEP, Vice-Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament

Speakers: Pierre Lequiller, MP, President of the Delegation of the French National Assembly for the European Union, Vice-President of the EPP
Irena Ewa Lipowicz, Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to the Republic of Austria

Discussion

Conclusions: Elmar Brok MEP, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee and Representative of the EP at the IGC

11.00 - 13.00 hrs Theme III: Ensuring internal security: Fighting illegal immigration and terrorism

Chairman: James Elles MEP, Vice-Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament

Report on the extraordinary Home Affairs Council of 19 March:
Ernst Strasser, Federal Minister of the Interior of the Republic of Austria

Speakers: Jaime Mayor Oreja, President of the PP Group in the Basque Parliament, former Minister of Interior
Jamie Patrick Shea, NATO Deputy Assistant Secretary General for External Relations
Hubert Pirker MEP, Co-ordinator of the EPP-ED Group for the Committee on Citizen's Freedom and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs

Discussion

Conclusions: Francesco Fiori MEP, Vice-Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament

14.30 - 15.00 hrs Press conference

15.00 - 18.00 hrs Theme IV: The Union and its new neighbours: A new project for Europe ?

Chairman: Wim van Velzen MEP, Vice-Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament

Speakers: Ivo Sanader, Prime Minister of the Republic of Croatia
Christopher Patten, Member of the European Commission responsible for External Affairs
Solomon Passy, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria, Chairman in Office of the OSCE (to be confirmed)
Ján Figel, co-opted Member of the Presidency of the EPP-ED Group in the EP and Slovakian nominee for European Commissioner

Discussion

Conclusions: Ilkka Suominen MEP, Vice-Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament



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