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This seventh GlobalEurope 2020 session will take place in Helsinki on October 26th and 27th. It will be organised by the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and holds a significant place in the GlobalEurope 2020 series. Indeed it will close the first cycle of GlobalEurope 2020 seminars which, over one year exactly (October 2003 – October 2004), managed to initiate a unique process of invention of the EU’s future external relations (see executive drafts).
By considering each region one after the other, this « world tour » of the EU’s future relations with the rest of the planet gave the occasion for rich and open discussions which altogether involved some 450 diplomats from 28 European Ministries of Foreign Affairs (25 member states, plus Romania, Bulgaria and Croatia) and from the European institutions (Council, Commission, Court of Auditors, Parliament), as well as around a hundred of experts from the academic world or NGOs. Even though each seminar was usefully opened by a prominent representative of the region concerned, the series of seminars succeeded in providing an unprecedented debate « among Europeans » on the future of their relations with the world. The executive summaries of each seminar were widely circulated to dozens of thousands of key actors of European external relations (diplomats, elected officials, experts, NGOs, journalists, academics) and professionals from the rest of the world, thus democratising a debate usually restricted to small numbers of experts while it is in fact important to associate European society as a whole to those discussions in order to found the EU’s future external policy on some strong democratic legitimacy.
The closing session of the first series of GlobalEurope 2020 seminars therefore aims at defining the transversal axes (instruments, methods, human resources, neighbourhood, democratic legitimacy) upon which to base the great regional orientations identified in the six previous sessions. This next session in Helsinki also ought to provide a transition for the second series of GlobalEurope 2020 seminars that will be held in each region of the world (Arab World, North America, Russia, Africa, South America and Asia) over the two next years (see presentation GE2020 II). Anticipating the ends indeed requires that the instruments and methods are anticipated too
Europe 2020 has chosen to tackle the 5 following transversal issues:
1. Which general trends appear from this global vision of the EU’s external relations until 2020?
2. Which human resources will be required to design and implement the EU’s future external relations?
3. How can the EU’s neighbourhood integrate to a global vision of European external relations?
4. How can Europe contribute to adapt the international diplomatic system to 21st-century challenges?
5. How to build a democratic legitimacy for the EU’s future external policy?
Due to the complexity of the themes tackled, Europe 2020 and the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs have decided that this seventh GlobalEurope 2020 session would take place over a day and a half so that those fundamental issues which are at the heart of all future European and internal debates can be properly discussed.
Like the previous seminars, conclusions will be widely circulated by Internet to dozens of thousands of concerned actors.
Programme of Day 1
Moderator : Franck Biancheri, Director of Studies and Strategy, Europe 2020
Europe 2020 seminars are bilingual: presentations and discussions take place in English or French without translation
14.30 – Opening session
. Mr Erkki Tuomioja, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Finland (read speech)
. Mr Franck Biancheri, Director of Research and Strategy, Europe 2020
15.15 – Theme 1: Which general trends appear from this global vision of the EU’s externals relations until 2020?
The six previous seminars managed to find a converging vision of what the Europeans expect, hope or fear regarding the future of their relation with six great regions of the world. Which common trends in terms of aims and means appear from these six regional visions? Does a « European identity » begin to appear from what the EU would like to develop in terms of international relations ?
Introduction by:
. H. E. Mr Jean-Jacques Subrenat, Ambassador of France in Helsinki
. Dr. Stanislav Rašcan, State Undersecretary, Head of Department for Africa, Asia, Latin America and Pacific, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Slovenia
Debate
16.45 – Break
17.00 – Theme 2: Which human resources are required to design and implement the EU’s future external relations?
Judicial, financial, political, cultural, humanitarian, commercial or military aims and tools are nothing without the men and women to design and implement them. The EU’s external policy until 2020 will only exist and deliver properly once human resources adapted to the ends and to the 21st-century have been trained, recruited and motivated. What are the needs in « men / women » for such a policy? And what are the expectations of the men and women it must attract to be efficient?
Introduction by H. E. Mr Arnoldas Milukas, Ambassador at Large, European Union Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Vilnius
Debate
18.30 – End of day 1
19.00 – Dinner hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Programme of Day 2
9.30 – Theme 3: How can EU neighbourhood integrate to a global vision of European external relations?
The EU is not an island. It is surrounded by geographically very close neighbours going from Russia in the North-East to Morocco in the South-West. This “neighbourhood ark” crosses many regions with very different characteristics (Russian world, Muslim world, Arab world) as well as two continents, Asia and Africa. Beyond the regional approaches explored by the six first sessions, it is important to clarify what sort of relations the EU will develop with these neighbours until 2020. Should a future “neighbourhood” policy be integrated to regional relations or should it be a policy in itself? Which ends should be followed, in particular in comparison with the concept of EU accession ? Should its instruments be fixed or flexible ? These are a few of the urgent questions raised by the Turkish case in particular already today.
. “European Neighbourhood Policy – Finnish perspective” by: Mr Antti Turunen, Unit for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Department for Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Helsinki
Debate
11.00 – Break
11.15 – Theme 4 – How can Europe contribute to adapt the international diplomatic system to 21st-century challenges?
The recent international crises have demonstrated the growing complexity of international relations and its transformations, as in the case of shifting alliances among states. Ranging from WTO negotiations to Security Council decisions, the EU sees that defining common interests with Asia will not be an easy task. Is the diversity of Asian players compatible with the EU’s regional approach? Can the EU deal with Asian countries on a case-to-case basis? or rather should the EU try to orientate Asia towards its own vision of global governance?
Introduction by Prof. Joseph Langer, Chairman of the Institute of Sociology, Klagenfurt University, Austria
Debate
12.45 – Luncheon
14.45 – Theme 5: How to build a democratic legitimacy for the EU’s future external policy?
Without democratic legitimacy, there will be no common external policy. This idea came back regularly in the six first seminars. Due the very nature of the EU, and to its obligation of debate among member states, the external policy of the EU will be submitted to public debates much more numerous and complex than a national external policy. The number of political actors required for its adoption and implementation will be a factor of fragility or subtlety according to whether or not it will benefit from a large democratic support. Which constraints result from this democratic requirement? Which methods are likely to strengthen it? Here are some more challenges for the EU until 2020.
Introduction by Sebastian Sass, Secretary for International Affairs, The Social-Democratic Group in the Finnish Parliament
Debate
16.15 – Break
16.15 – Conclusions
17.00 – Closing session
. Mr Jaakko Laajava, Under-Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (read speech)
18.00 – End of Day 2 and of seminar
Participants
Leena Aalto, Deputy European Correspondent, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Helsinki
H. E. Mr Marin Andrijasevic, Ambassador of Croatia in Helsinki
Franck Biancheri, Director of Research and Strategy, Europe 2020
Marie-Hélène Caillol, Vice-Présidente Europe 2020
Xavier Delamarre, Premier Conseiller, Ambassade de France à Helsinki
Isabelle Deschard, Présidente ACEP
H. E. Johan Van Dessel, Ambassador of Belgium in Finland
Fernando Fernández-Arias, Chargé d’Affaires, Embassy of Spain in Helsinki
Joël Ferrand, Ambassade de France à Helsinki
Jan Friedrich, Deputy-Chief of the Embassy of Germany in Finland
Pirkko Hämäläinen, Europe Information, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Helsinki
Jari Haapiainen, Secretary for International Affairs, Parliamentary Group of the Finnish Centre Party, Finnish Parliament
Sandra Hatzidakis, Policy Planning and Research, Research Assistant, Ministry for Foreign Affairs
Anna-Maija Kärkkäinen, First Secretary, Unit for General EU Affairs and Coordination, Department for Europe, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland
Agata Kolakowska, Polish Institute of International affairs, Warsaw
Klaus Korhonen, Director, Policy Planning and Research, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland
Matthew Kirk, British Embassy in Helsinki
Sebastian Sass, Secretary for International Affairs, The Socialdemocratic Group in the Finnish Parliament
Erkki Tuomioja, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Finland
Jaakko Laajava, Under-Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Joseph Langer, Professor, Chairman of the Institute of Sociology, Klagenfurt University, Austria
Daniel Linotte, Senior Economic Adviser, OSCE Secretariat, Vienna
Isabel Lopes-Ferreira, Présidente Africa Debate
H. E. Ms Loria Markides, Ambassador of Cyprus in Helsinki
H. E. Mr Arnoldas Milukas, Ambassador at Large, European Union Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Vilnius
Aap Neljas, Director of 2nd Division, Policy Planning Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tallinn
Ljiljana Pancirov, Minister plenipotentiary, Embassy of Croatia in Helsinki
Ana Maria Ribeiro da Silva, Chargée d’Affaires, Embassy of Portugal in Helsinki
H. E. Mr Stanislaw Stebelski, Ambassador of Poland in Helsinki
H. E. Mr Mac Unfraidh, Ambassador of Ireland in Helsinki
Yegor Paanukoski-Feklitchev, Student in Political Sciences, Helsinki University
Richard Powell, Deputy Head of Mission, British Embassy in Helsinki
Andy Pryce, British Embassy in Helsinki
Dr. Stanislav Rašcan, State Undersecretary, Head of Department for Africa, Asia, Latin America and Pacific, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Slovenia
S. E. Jean-Jacques Subrenat, Ambassadeur de France à Helsinki
Antti Turunen, Unit for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Department for Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Helsinki
Ms Paraskevi Tzeveleki, Greek Embassy
Mr Lauri Voionmaa, EU-law unit, Finnish Ministry of Justice
Eero Vuohula, Adviser, DG Relex, European Commission
Brigita Zelezneva, First Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Latvia
