11.02.99

EPP Group Study Days
4 March 1999
Vienna

Thursday 4 March

9 a.m. - 12.30 p.m.

Introduction and opening of the Study Days by Mrs Ursula Stenzel MEP, Head of the Austrian Delegation in the EPP Group

Topic: "Safeguarding the Future"

Topic I. "Europe towards an area of freedom and security based on the rule of law"

Chairman: Mr Hans-Gert Pöttering MEP, Vice-Chairman of the EPP Group

Rapporteurs:

• Mr Ricardo Martí Fluxá, Minister responsible for Internal Security, Spain
  "Europe, an area of freedom and security, under the rule of law"
  
  
• Mr Jürgen Storbeck, Director-Designate of Europol, The Hague
  "The fight against crime in Europe - the new challenge"
  
  
• Mr Hubert Pirker MEP, Vice-Chairman of Working Group E
  "The problems of migration and asylum - our solutions for the security and stability of Europe"
  
  
• Mr Hartmut Nassauer MEP, EPP Coordinator in the European Parliament Committee on Civil Liberties and Internal Affairs
  "Amsterdam - the new challenges for the EPP Group"
  

Discussion


3 - 6.30 p.m.

Topic II. "Research and development - Work for the future"

Chairman: Mr Reinhard Rack MEP, Vice-Chairman of the EPP Group

Rapporteurs:

• Mrs Godelieve Quisthoudt-Rowhohl MEP, the European Parliament's rapporteur on the fifth framework programme on technological research
  "The European Parliament's view"
  
  
• Mr Franz Fischler, Member of the Commission
  "Biotechnology - new opportunities for employment in rural areas"
  
  
• Professor Helmut List, President of AVL-Graz and former Chairman of the Industrial Research and Development Advisory Committee - Vienna
  
  
• Professor Juhsani KUUSI, Head of Nokia Research Center, Senior Vice-President of the Nokia Corporation.
  

Discussion