Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Research Institute of Ethnic and National Minorities
1014 Budapest, Országház u. 30.
ENLARGEMENT OF THE EU - A CHALLENGE FOR WHAT?
29-30 September 2005, Budapest
RIENM, Jakobinus Conference Room
The workshop is an integrative part of the EU6 framework research programme 'Challenge - The Changing Landscape of European Liberty and Security' (2004-2008). This working package including research institutes, scholars from Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria and Malta covers on short-term and long-term impacts of enlargement on regional and neighbourhood contacts, public order, security issues, as well as national identity aspects. The event would provide a direct exchange of views on methods and analysis of effects, selection of data or a debate on existing results after the first year of the joint work.
29th September
11.30 - 12.00 Registration
12.00 - 13.00 Introduction session
Welcoming - László Szarka (Director of the Institute)
The major tracks and traps of the ongoing research - Judit Tóth (Research leader)
Publicity of the researching activity - András Kováts (Research fellow, RIENM)
Buffet lunch
14.00 - 16.30 Regional impacts and their measuring
Chair: Dr. István Sértõ-Radics (Committee of the Regions, Head of delegation)
The relevance of the neighbourhood and regional policy of the EU from the CEE countries - Balázs Vizi (Research fellow, RIENM)
Available data, types of data and their applicability for analysis of revitalisation of regions according to the lessons on Eastern border of Hungary: A methodological proposal - Prof. Béla Baranyi (Director of Regional Research Institute, HAS)
Case studies on short term impacts and preconditions of cross-border co-operation with neighbours - Franziska Schubert (Corvinus University of Budapest) and Csaba Smik (freelance researcher)
Discussion
30th September
9.30 - 11.00 Impacts of Visa policy - Expectations and Reality
Chair: Mattila Heikki (Regional Project Development Officer, Region Office of IOM)
Joint efforts of Visegrád Group and visa for adjacent countries’ people - Representative of the government [not confirmed]
The Polish experiences of visa policy and securitization - Agnieszka Weinar (PhD Student, junior researcher, Batory Foundation and Warsaw University)
The consequences of aligning visa policy in the process of accession: the case of Bulgaria - Angelina Tchorbadjiyska (Expert of JHA, European Institute)
The experiences of applicants - Luca Váradi (ELTE)
Discussion
Coffee break
11.30 - 13.30 Public Order and Security contra New-born Rule of Law?
Chair: Regional representative of ICRC [not confirmed]
Are there any specific elements of this contradiction in CEE? Dilemmas for the Constitutional Courts - Prof. Gábor Halmai (Director of Hungarian Human Rights and Documentation Centre)
Legal status and Entitlement of police, security services and border guards in fight against terrorism in Hungary - István Szikinger (Lecturer at Central European University)
What is the ethnic profile of perpetrators? Data protection and prejudices - Pap András (Lecturer at Kodolányi János University College)
Can the renegade flight be shot remaining inside the international and constitutional law? - Gábor Sulyok (Research fellow, Institute for Legal Research, HAS)
Discussion
Buffet lunch
14.30 - 16.30 National, Regional or/and European Identity
Chair: Ambassador of Poland in Budapest [not confirmed]
How the identity can be approached in the European Parliament? - Kinga Gál (Member of the European Parliament)
Ethnical renaissance, nation building or conflicts in the periphery of the EU - Zoltán Kántor (Teleki Foundation and chief editor of Regio)
Innovation of public law in favour of kin-minorities in CEE - Balázs Majtényi (Research fellow, Institute for Legal Research, HAS)
Regional development, ethnicity and neighbourhood policy - Erika Törzsök (Political adviser of the Minister of Foreign Affairs)
Discussion
16.30 Summary - Judit Tóth