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The ECFR Annual Council Meeting is one of the leading conferences on Europe’s foreign policy. We follow the energy of the debate and this year we met in Paris on 28 & 29 of May.
With the multilateral order in recession, and the emergence of a new era of great power competition, we were focusing our attention on how to defend Europe in the New World Disorder.
Our intimate forum, gathering ECFR’s Council Members once a year, stands out by retaining the intimacy and interactivity of a private club, allowing a range of high-level speakers from Europe and beyond to look creatively and practically at Europe’s long-term prospects and its role in the world.
Agenda
Monday 28 May 2018
12:45 – 12:50 Welcome
By Carl Bildt, Co-chair of the Board of ECFR
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Francois Godement, Director of the Asia and China Programme, ECFR
Kadri Liik, Senior Policy Fellow, ECFR
Moderator: Mark Leonard, Director of ECFR
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13:45 – 14:45 Can Europe defend itself in a new world disorder?
Denis Mercier, Supreme Allied Commander Transformation at NATO
Arnaud Danjean, Member of the European Parliament
Norbert Röttgen, Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Bundestag
Nathalie Tocci, Director of the International Affairs Institute
Moderator: Philip Stephens, Chief Political Commentator, Financial Times
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16:45 – 17:45 Can Europe be the saviour of the liberal order?
Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies, University of Oxford
John Ikenberry, Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University
Karolina Wigura, Member of the Board, Kultura Liberalna Foundation
Moderator: Sylvie Kauffmann, Editorial Director at Le Monde
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17:45 – 18:45 Saudi Arabia and Iran as the new decisive frontline in the Middle East
Abdel Aziz Abu Hamad Aluwaisheg, Assistant Secretary General for Political and Negoatiation Affairs, GCC
Bassma Kodmani, Execeutive Director, Arab Reform Initiative
Seyed Hossein Mousavian, Former Iranian Ambassador and Foreign Policy Advisor to the Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council
Justin Vaïsse, Director of Policy Planning, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, France
Moderator: Julien Barnes-Dacey, Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme, ECFR
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10:30 – 11:30 EU on Russia/Ukraine: Time to move beyond sanctions?
Lina Linkevicius, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania
Nicu Popescu, Senior Analyst, EUISS
Hannes Swoboda, Former President of Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats, European Parliament
Moderator: Christine Ockrent, Presenter of Affaires Etrangeres, France Culture
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13:00 – 14:00 “La Grande Marche” at the Parliament elections: Opportunity for change in 2019?
Pieyre-Alexandre Anglade, Member of Assemblee Nationale
Gordon Bajnai, former Prime Minister of Hungary
Diana Janse, Senior Foreign Policy Advisor, Swedish Moderate Party
Moderator: Tom Nuttall, Charlemagne Columnist, The Economist
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