EPP-ED Group:

MEETING OF THE EPP-ED GROUP BUREAU
1-2 September 2005
Gdansk, Poland

Programme

Last update: 26/08/2005

Thursday, 1 September 2005

09.00 - 09.30 Opening

Hans-Gert POETTERING MEP, Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament

Lech WALESA, former President of Poland and former Leader of Solidarity

Welcome:

Donald TUSK, Chairman, Platforma Obywatelska (Civic Platform)

Jacek SARYUSZ-WOLSKI MEP, Leader of the Polish Delegation in the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament and Vice-President of the European Parliament

Pawel ADAMOWICZ, Mayor of the City of Gdansk

09.30-12.00 Theme I: "The EU and its New Neighbours"

Chairman of the session:

Hans-Gert POETTERING MEP, Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament

Speakers:

Viktor YUSCHENKO, President of the Ukraine
Mikhail SAAKASHVILI, President of Georgia
Ivo SANADER, Prime Minister of the Republic of Croatia
Ivan MIKLOS, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of the Slovak Republic
Iurie ROSCA MP, Chairman PPCD (People's Party - Christian Democrats), Moldova
Mirek TOPOLÁNEK, Chairman of the ODS (Civic Democratic Party), Czech Republic
Borys NIEMTSOV, SDS Party of Russia, former Deputy Prime Minister of Russia responsible for economic reform
Vincuk VIACORKA, Chairman of the Belarus Popular Front Party
Stanislas SHUSHKIEWICH, Social Democratic Party, former Chairman of the National Council of Belarus

Debate

15.00-15.10 Chairman to lay a wreath at the Westerplatte Memorial

16.30 Chairman to lay a wreath at the Three Crosses Memorial
Speech by Lech WALESA

Friday, 2 September 2005

09.00 - 11.15 Theme II: "Solidarity, the Gdansk Accords and European Reunification"

Chairman of the session:

Hans-Gert POETTERING MEP, Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament

Co-Chairman of the session:

Ville ITÄLÄ MEP, Vice-Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament

Special guest:

Tadeusz GOCLOWSKI, Archbishop of Gdansk

Speakers:

Jacek SARYUSZ-WOLSKI MEP, Leader of the Polish Delegation in the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament and Vice-President of the European Parliament
Elmar BROK MEP, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the European Parliament
Jerzy BUZEK MEP, former Prime Minister of Poland
Mario MAURO MEP, Vice-President of the European Parliament
Viktor ORBAN, President of FIDESZ -Hungarian Civic Union, Vice-President of the European People's Party

Debate

11.15 Presentation of the proposed European Solidarity Centre

11.15 - 12.00 General Conclusions

Hans-Gert POETTERING MEP, Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament

12.00 Press conference