INTEGRATING MIGRANTS AND ASYLUM SEEKERS IN THE EUROPEAN UNION
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PARIS

12-13 June 2008

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Combating International Crime in an Enlarging European Union:
What is the Role of Europol?

Integrating Migrants in France:
What Measures Should the New French Government Take to Bridge an ever Deepening Social Divide?

Preparing for Euro Adoption in the New
EU Member States

How Effective is the European Arrest Warrant
as a Means of Combating Transnational Crime?

Great Debate Seminar Calendar 2008

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 since 1994 - normally in Paris, incidentally also in other European capitals. Participants include diplomats, high ranking civil servants, politicians, and representatives of NGOs, business and the military.

• International Herald Tribune, June 4, 2005
• International Herald Tribune, May 13, 2005
• The Financial Times, February 23, 2005
• The Financial Times, February 22, 2005
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Germany, February 16, 2005
• The Washington Times, December 29, 2004
• MSNBC, October 15, 2004
• Notre Europe
  

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Read New Lectures Online:

GARY H. RICE
Col. CA/CF Ret., Ontario, Canada
NATO: To be or not o be?
(pdf)

MARCEL H. VAN HERPEN
Director Cicero Foundation
Building a Bigger, Better NATO at Riga
(IntheNationalInterest)
(html)

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)

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

JOERN WESENBERG
Deutsche Rentenversicherung
Berlin
Preparing Our Pension Systems for the Future:
The Case of Germany
(ppt)

FRANK McDONALD
Professor of International Business
University of Bradford
School of Management
Employment: Do We Need
an Anglo-Saxon or a Nordic Model?
(ppt)

GIULIANO BONOLI
Professor
IDHEAP, Lausanne
Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration
The Politics of Pension Reform in Western Europe
(ppt)

GEORGINA HILL
Labour and Social Affairs Attache
British Embassy, Paris
Labour Market Policies in the UK:
A Recipe for Success?
(ppt)

ANDREAS WOERGOETTER
OECD, Paris
Head of Division
Economics Department
Are the Candidate EU Member States
from the Balkans Ready to Catch-Up?
(ppt)

ARMIN RIESS
European Investment Bank
Luxembourg
Fiscal Consolidation and Public Investment
A Look at Bulgaria and Romania
(ppt)

ARNE PAULSSON
Swedish Social Insurance Agency
Pensions Department
Pension Reform in the Nordic Countries:
A Model for Other EU Member States?
(ppt)

WILLIAM PFAFF
International Herald Tribune
on Spreading Democracy: A Shared Transatlantic Goal or a Apple of Discord?
(pdf)

MIKA VIDLUND
Finnish Centre for Pensions
A Comparison of Pension Reform in the EU-27
(ppt)