9 Annual Polish-British Round Table, 2016

Wise
“Reforming Europe”
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9 Annual Polish-British Round Table, 2016
Organised by:
Centre for European Reform (London), WiseEuropa (Warsaw),
European Studies Centre (Oxford), Royal Institute of International Affairs (London),
Unia&Polska Foundation (Warsaw) and Villa Decius Association (Krakow)
Kraków, 12 and 13 May 2016
Programme
Thursday 12 May
18.00
Walk from the Sheraton Hotel to Wentzl Restaurant
18.15
Welcome drinks
18:30
Welcome and opening
Speakers:
Chair:
Keynote discussion. Challenges and Choices for European Security:
An Agenda for NATO’s Warsaw Summit
Tobias Ellwood MP, Under Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Tomasz Szatkowski, Under Secretary of State, Ministry of National Defence
Prof Timothy Garton Ash, University of Oxford
20.00
Welcome:
Formal dinner
Katarzyna Kacperczyk, Under Secretary of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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Friday 13 May
8.15
Transfer from the Sheraton Hotel to Villa Decius
8.45-9.10
Welcome:
Coffee
Dr Danuta Glondys, Villa Decius
09.15-10.45
Introducers:
Chair:
Session 1. Polish and British Visions for Europe.
Prof Tomasz Grzegorz Grosse, University of Warsaw
Baroness Pauline Neville-Jones, former Minister of State for Security and Counter
Terrorism
Krzysztof Bobiński, Unia & Polska
10.45-11.15
Coffee break
11.15-12.45
Introducers:
Chair:
Session 2. Europe on the Move: Refugees, Migration and Integration.
Dr Cathryn Costello, University of Oxford
Prof Maciej Duszczyk, University of Warsaw
Charles Grant, Centre for European Reform
12.45-14.00
Lunch
14.00-15.30
Introducers:
Chair:
Session 3. Unexploited Potential? Reforming the European Economy
Ignacy Morawski, WiseEuropa
Vicky Pryce, Director, Centre for Economics and Business Research
Krzysztof Blusz, WiseEuropa
15.40
Transfer from Villa Decius to the Sheraton Hotel or the Old Town Square
16.00-18.30
Free time or optional tour of Royal Castle (Wawel)
18.30
Walk from the Sheraton Hotel to Oranżeria Café, Kossak Hotel
19.00
Remarks:
Chair:
Pre-dinner discussion: The Political Year in Britain and Poland
Prof Krzysztof Szczerski, Secretary of State at the Chancellery of the President of the
Republic of Poland
Anne McElvoy, The Economist
Marek Ostrowski, Polityka
James de Waal, Chatham House
20.00
Informal dinner
Introducers:
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Saturday 14 May
Departures
NOTE: Thursday evening discussion is on-the-record. All Friday sessions are under the Chatham
House Rule.