Given the specificity of recent years and the approaching 20th anniversary of Slovakia’s accession to the European Union and NATO, the XXII edition of the conference will go beyond the assessment of the year 2023 and will also focus on the medium- and longer-term vision of Slovakia’s foreign and European policy.
PROGRAM
Opening remarks
Juraj Stern, Chairman of the SFPA Board of Directors
PANEL I: 20 years in EU and NATO
host
Eva Mihočková, zahranicnapolitika.sk
Panelists
Pavol Demeš, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic and Co-founder of SFPA
Mikuláš Dzurinda, Former Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic
Peter Weiss, Former Politician and Diplomat
PANEL II: War in Ukraine and the interests of Slovakia
Host
Pavol Demeš, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic and Co-founder of SFPA
Panelists
Alexander Duleba, Slovak Foreign Policy Association
Jana Kobzová, Advisor to the President of the Slovak Republic for Foreign Affairs
Pavol Macko, Expert on Security, Strategies, and Technology
Vladimír Šucha, Head of Representation of the European Commission in Slovakia
PANEL III: EU reform (in the context of major enlargement) …what kind of EU for Slovakia?
Host
Miroslava Pisklová, Slovak Foreign Policy Association
Panelists
Katarína Cséfalvayová, Institute for Central Europe
Radovan Geist, Euractiv
Peter Terem, Faculty of Political Sciences and International Relations, Matej Bel University
Address by the President of the Slovak Republic
Zuzana Čaputová, President of the Slovak Republic
Q&A
Concluding Remarks
Tomáš Strážay, Director, Slovak Foreign Policy Association
The conference is organized in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.
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