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11:30 - 12:00			Welcome & Registration of Participants
Session I 12:00 - 13:30			Will beefing up the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy risk sidelining development aid?
One view of the EU Reform Treaty signed in Lisbon is that it creates essential political machinery to reinforce Europe’s leadership in development assistance, which by 2010 is due to rise to two-thirds of all global aid. The more negative viewpoint is that the EU’s creation of a new foreign policy chief will both sideline and politicise Europe’s aid-giving. What is the likely impact of the new treaty on the EU’s efforts to tackle poverty and promote economic growth in the developing world?
Elmar Brok MEP, Member of the European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trustee of Friends of Europe Patrick Child, Head of Cabinet of the EU Commissioner for External Relations Benita Ferrero-Waldner Simon Stocker, Director of Eurostep, Network of Autonomous European Development NGOs Gareth Thomas, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for International Development (DFID), United Kingdom Co-moderated by Giles Merritt, Secretary General of Friends of Europe, and Gie Goris, Editor-in-Chief of MO.
13:30 - 14:30			Networking Lunch
Session II 14:30 - 16:00			Are European NGOs right to be concerned over key aspects of the Lisbon Treaty?
Some of the EU’s leading NGOs have been quick to query the implications of the Lisbon Treaty, noting that its text betrays the Union’s longstanding principles of partnership in development cooperation and the independence from political considerations of humanitarian assistance. Just as alarming to the NGOs is the possibility that after 2014, when today’s 27 EU Commissioners will be reduced to 18, there will no longer be a Development Commissioner. How justified are these concerns?
Jean De Ruyt, Ambassador, Permanent Representation of Belgium to the EU Hany El Banna, Founder and President of Islamic Relief Worldwide and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Humanitarian Forum Dirk Messner, Director of the German Development Institute (DIE) Klaus Rudischhauser, Director for ACP General Affairs, European Commission Directorate General for Development and Relations with ACP States Moderated by Giles Merritt, Secretary General of Friends of Europe.
16:00			End of the Roundtable

Other confirmed discussants include:

• Jonathan Addleton, USAID Representative to the EU;
• Laurent Amar, Head of Department Strategy, EU & Multilateral Affairs, Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, France;
• Paul Amuna, Senior Lecturer at University of Greenwich and Consultant in International Nutrition & Public Health;
• Mahamat Saleh Annadif, Permanent Representative of the African Union to the EU;
• Haleh Bridi, World Bank Special Representative to the EU;
• Paul Culley, Director for Development and Trade, General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union;
• Horst Fischer, Director of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ);
• Filip Andrzej Kaczmarek MEP, Member of the European Parliament Committee on Development;
• H.E. Stephen Katenta-Apuli, Ambassador of the Republic of Uganda to Belgium;
• Gay Mitchell MEP, Member of the European Parliament Committee on Development;
• Pascal Ntahompagaze, President, Paix et Solidarité en Afrique (PASOAF);
• Hannes Swoboda MEP, Vice-Chairman of the Group of the Party of European Socialists (PSE) and Member of the European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs;
• Egidijus Vareikis, Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the National Parliament of Lithuania and Vice Chairman of the Executive Committee of AWEPA (European Parliamentarians for Africa).

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