Friday 14 December 2018
Morning
10:00 – 10:15: Opening Remarks
- Dr Matthias Waechter, Director General, CIFE
- Mr Jean-Antoine Giansily, Vice-President, CIFE
10:15: 10:45: Keynote Speech: "The War in Syria: From Revolution to Regional Crisis."
Klemens Semtner, Senior Advisor for the German Federal Foreign Office
10:45 – 11:30: ‘NATO and Challenges in the South’
A discussion with Ms Despina Afentouli, NATO Public Diplomacy Division
11:30 – 11:45: Coffee Break
11:45 – 13:15: 1st Panel: The New Security Environment in the Mediterranean
- Dr Edy Cohen, Research Associate, Begin Sadat Centre for Strategic Studies
- Dr Matteo Bressan, Analyst, NATO Defense College Foundation
- Ms Paulina Izewicz, Senior Research Associate, James Martins Center for Non-Proliferation Studies
Moderated by Mr Tobias Buetow, Director of the Master in Advanced European and International Studies - Trilingual Studies, CIFE
13:15-14:45: Buffet Lunch at CIFE
Friday 14 December 2018
Afternoon
14:45-16:15: 2nd Panel: Regional Stakes in the Mediterranean
- Dr Riadh Jaidane, Member of Parliament, Tunisia
- Dr George Tzogopoulos, Senior Fellow, BESA and CIFE
- Dr Natalia Timus, Université Côte d'Azur,Sciences Po, Campus Menton
- Mr Benjamin Weinthal, Research Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies, European Correspondent, Jerusalem Post
Moderated by Dr Laurent Baechler, Director of the Master in Advanced European and International Studies - European Integration and Global Studies, CIFE
16:15 – 16:30: Coffee Break
16:30 – 18:00: 3d Panel: Deepening NATO-EU Cooperation
- Professor Matthias Jopp, Head of International Programmes, IEP, Berlin
- Dr Anna Dimitrova, Associate Professor and Researcher in International affairs at ESSCA School of Management
- Dr Garwan Walshe, Executive Director, TRD Policy, Former Policy Adviser to the British Conservative Party
- Ms Tania Latici, Information Specialist, European Parliamentary Research Services (EPRS)
Moderated by Dr Matthias Waechter, Director General, CIFE
20:30: Dinner