EPP-ED GROUP STUDY DAYS
ON TURKEY
23 - 24 September 2004
BRUSSELS



PROGRAMME
Last update: 17/09/2004

Thursday, 23 September 2004, from 3.00 till 6.00 pm

Chair and Opening: João PINHEIRO, Vice-Chairman of the EPP-ED Group


THEME: EU - Turkey Relations

Implications of Turkish membership for the EU

by: Edgar LENSKI, Lecturer, Humboldt University of Berlin

Turkey in Europe

by: Alexandre DEL VALLE, Researcher, France

Statements by:

Elmar BROK, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee

José Ignacio SALAFRANCA SÁNCHEZ-NEYRA, EPP-ED Coordinator of the Committee on Foreign Affairs

Jacques TOUBON, Vice-Chairman of the Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee

Debate


NB: at 6.00 pm, short interventions on the situation in Belarus in the run-up to the 17 October election by :

* Jaroslaw ROMANCZUK, Vice-President of the Belarus United Civil Party

* Ihar LALKOU, Head of the International Committee of the Belarus Popular Front

Friday, 24 September 2004, from 9.00 till 12.30 am

Chair: Hans-Gert POETTERING, Chairman of the EPP-ED Group


THEME: Human and minority rights in Turkey

Interventions by:

Yusuf ALATAS, Vice-President of the Turkish Human Rights Association

Gabriele JUEN, CFSP/External Relations - Amnesty International, Brussels

Elisabeth DÖRLER, Christian-Muslim Forum, expert on religious minorities in Turkey

Statements by:

Simon BUSUTTIL MEP, Head of the Maltese Delegation of the EPP-ED Group, Member of the Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union

Armin LASCHET, EPP-ED Coordinator in the Sub-Committee on Human Rights

Camiel EURLINGS, Rapporteur on Turkey of the Committee on Foreign Affairs

Debate

Conclusions by the Chairman of the EPP-ED Group, Hans-Gert POETTERING