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February 2010: 162 LECTURES AVAILABLE


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 MARCEL H. VAN HERPEN

Director Cicero Foundation

SARKOZY s FOREIGN POLICY:
NOT PRINCIPLED, OPPORTUNISTIC, AMD AMATEURISH

Why is the foreign policy of Sarkozy disappointing?

 


 DAVID J. SMITH

Director, Georgian Security Analysis Center, Tbilisi
Senior Fellow, Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, Washington

FRENCH SHIP SALE TO RUSSIA MUST BE BLOWN OFF COURSE

 


 MARCEL H. VAN HERPEN

Director
The Cicero Foundation

THE PROPOSAL OF RUSSIAN PRESIDENT MEDVEDEV
FOR A PAN-EUROPEAN SECURITY PACT
Its Six Hidden Objectives and How the West
Should Respond

 


 ALEXANDER J. MOTYL

Professor of Political Science
Rutgers University - Newark

UKRAINE BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE EUROPEAN UNION
An Analysis of the Present Situation

 


 STEPHEN SCHWARTZ

Executive Director
Center for Islamic Pluralism, Washington DC

MOLDOVA AND RUSSIA
Why is Moscow Meddling?

 


 KORNELY K. KAKACHIA

Tbilisi State University
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

SHAPING GEORGIA s FUTURE AFTER THE RUSSIAN INVASION

 


 HALL GARDNER

Chair
American University, Paris
International and Comparative Politics Department

TOWARD A SEPARATE BLACK SEA COMMAND

 


 MARCEL H. VAN HERPEN

Director
The Cicero Foundation

SARKOZY, FRANCE, AND NATO
Will Sarkozy s Rapprochement to NATO Be Sustainable?

 


 GIULIANO BONOLI

Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration
IDHEAP, Lausanne

Reforming Pensions in Europe:
The Political Significance of Technicalities

 


 MIKA VIDLUND

Finnish Centre for Pensions

Pension Reform in the Nordic Countries
What Can Other EU Member States Learn?

 

GREAT DEBATE SEMINAR CALENDAR


Great Debate Seminar Calendar 2010

More than a hundred ministries from over thirty countries already participated in Great Debate seminars.
Great Debate seminars are international seminars for experts on issues connected with European integration and Transatlantic security. They are organised in Paris and in other European capitals. Participants include diplomats, high ranking civil servants, politicians, and representatives of NGOs, business and the military.



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HALL GARDNER
Professor, American University
Prospects for the Transatlantic Relationship under the Obama Presidency:
Towards a Transatlantic Strategic Council?

(pdf)


GEORGINA HILL
Labour and Social Affairs Attache
British Embassy, Paris

Labour Market Policies in the UK:
A Recipe for Success?

(ppt)


GIDO TEN DOLLE
Dutch Ministry of Social Affairs
and Employment

Part-Time Work in the Netherlands:
Success or Failure?

(ppt)


EPHRAIM MARQUER
Director of Employee Savings and
Retirement Schemes AFG, Paris

The Pension Crisis in France:
Causes and Remedies

(ppt)


DIDIER BLANCHET
French National Institute of Statistics
and Economic Studies INSEE, Paris

Can French Pension Systems still Fulfill
their Implicit Commitments?

(ppt)


PER ECKEFELDT
DG Economic and Financial Affairs
European Commission, Brussels

Pension Reform in the European Union:
How to Cope with Ageing Populations?

(ppt)


HENRI STERDYNIAK
French Observatory of Economic Conjunctures
OFCE, Paris

Creating Low-Skilled Jobs:
The French Strategy

(ppt)


MARCEL H. VAN HERPEN
Director
The Cicero Foundation

RUSSIA, GEORGIA AND THE EUROPEAN UNION: THE CREEPING FINLANDIZATION OF EUROPE
(pdf)


GERT WEISSKIRCHEN, MP
Foreign Policy Spokesman
SPD Fraction German Bundestag

RISING ANTI-SEMITISM IN EUROPE
How to Respond?

(pdf)


MARIA JEPSEN
Acting Head of Research Department
European Trade Union Institute for Research,
Education, Health and Safety ETUI-REHS
Brussels

Does the European Commission Definition
of Flexicurity Favour Flexibility over Security?

(ppt)


 
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