Programme of the Conference
COUNCIL OF EUROPE – EUROPEAN UNION
FACING THE CHALLENGES OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD
15^th September 2011
Kazimierzowski Palace, University of Warsaw
Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28, Warsaw

11.00 Opening of the Conference

Welcoming speech – Prof. Katarzyna CHAŁASIŃSKA-MACUKOW, Rector of the Warsaw University Introduction - Krystyna ŻUREK, Director of the United Nations and Human Rights Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Ms Grażyna BERNATOWICZ, Under-secretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Mr Thorbjørn JAGLAND, Secretary General of the Council of Europe

11.30 I Session: Council of Europe’s reform in the context of CoE – EU political cooperation fields
Introduction to the discussion – Ambassador Urszula GACEK, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Poland to the Council of Europe

Prof. Danuta HÜBNER, Group of Eminent Persons, co-author of the CoE Report “Living together. Combining diversity and freedom in 21-st century Europe”
Mr Maciej SZPUNAR, Under-secretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Ms Kristen LUNDGREN, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE), Sweden
Ambassador Piotr ŚWITALSKI, Director of Policy Planning, Council of Europe

12.20 Discussion

12.45 Lunch for participants

13.45 II Session: European human rights system facing the contemporary world challenges

Introduction to the discussion – Hanna MACHIŃSKA, Director of the Office of the Council of Europe in Warsaw

Joseph SCHECHLA, Office of the High Commissionner for Human Rights in Tunisia

Prof. Janusz DANECKI, Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Warsaw University
Ms Halina BORTNOWSKA-DĄBROWSKA, Chair of the Council of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights
Prof. Mirosław WYRZYKOWSKI, Faculty of Law and Administration, Warsaw University, former Constitutional Court Judge
Prof. Zdzisław KĘDZIA, Faculty of Law and Administration, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Ambassador Jakub WOŁĄSIEWICZ, Plenipotentiary of the Minister of Foreign Affairs for cases and procedures before the European Court of Human Rights

15.00 Discussion

15:40 Opening of the exhibition „20 Anniversary of Poland’s Accession to the Council of Europe” by Radosław SIKORSKI, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Thorbjørn JAGLAND, Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Warsaw University, Kazimierzowski Palace

16.00 III Session: CoE – EU cooperation: neighbourhood policy and the promotion of democracy

Introduction to the discussion - Krzysztof STANOWSKI, Under-Secretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Mr Dariusz LIPIŃSKI, Head of Polish delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
Ambassador Janez LENARČIČ, Director of Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights in Warsaw
Prof. Michał KULESZA, Faculty of Law and Administration, Warsaw University, Advisor to the President of the Republic of Poland in the matters of local government
dr Marcin ZABOROWSKI, Director of the Polish Institute of International Affairs
Prof. Krzysztof DRZEWICKI, Department for cases and procedures before the European Court of Human Rights, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

17.00 Discussion

17.30 Closing of the Conference - Krystyna ŻUREK, Director of the United Nations and Human Rights Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs