MOLDOVA AND RUSSIA
Why is Moscow Meddling?

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

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

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

Reforming Pensions in Europe:
The Political Significance of Technicalities

WHY FRANCE REJOINS NATO:
WOOING BRITAIN?

MONETARY POLICY STRATEGY IN A GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT

Great Debate Seminar Calendar 2009

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.

The Cicero Foundation is associated with the
International Relations and Security Network (ISN)

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Charity No. 15003 (Succession Law of 1956, Article 24.4)

Read New Lectures Online:

GERT WEISSKIRCHEN, MP
Foreign Policy Spokesman
SPD Fraction German Bundestag
RISING ANTI-SEMITISM IN EUROPE
How to Respond?
(pdf)

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

PER ECKEFELDT
DG Economic and Financial Affairs
European Commission, Brussels
Pension Reform in the European Union:
How to Cope with Ageing Populations?
(ppt)

MARCEL H. VAN HERPEN
Director
The Cicero Foundation
RUSSIA, GEORGIA AND THE EUROPEAN UNION: THE CREEPING FINLANDIZATION OF EUROPE
(pdf)

GIDO TEN DOLLE
Dutch Ministry of Social Affairs
and Employment
Part-Time Work in the Netherlands:
Success or Failure?
(ppt)

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)

DIDIER BLANCHET
French National Institute of Statistics
and Economic Studies INSEE, Paris
Can French Pension Systems still Fulfill
their Implicit Commitments?
(ppt)

HENRI STERDYNIAK
French Observatory of Economic Conjunctures
OFCE, Paris
Creating Low-Skilled Jobs:
The French Strategy
(ppt)

EPHRAIM MARQUER
Director of Employee Savings and
Retirement Schemes AFG, Paris
The Pension Crisis in France:
Causes and Remedies
(ppt)

GUIDO VANDERSEYPEN
Deputy Head of Unit, Employment Strategy
DG Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities
European Commission, Brussels
The Fight against Undeclared Work:
A New Challenge for an Enlarged Europe?
(ppt)