THE SOLUTIONS CONFERENCE

QUO VADIS EUROPE: GLOBALISM VS. POPULISM 

organized by PanEuropa Bulgaria with the support of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria

25 April 2017 (Tuesday) Sofia Hotel Balkan, Bulgaria 

09:30 – 10:00 REGISTRATION 

10:00 – 10:30 OPENING REMARKS 

H.E. Rumen Radev, President, Republic of Bulgaria (TBC)

H.M. King Simeon II, Prime Minister, Republic of Bulgaria (2001-2005)

Moderator: Gergana Passy, President, PanEuropa Bulgaria 

10:30 – 12:30 BULGARIA IN THE EU: TEN YEARS LATER 

Moderator: Boyko Vassilev, Editor-in-Chief, Current Affairs, Bulgarian National Television (TBC)

Peter Stoyanov, President of the Republic of Bulgaria (1997 – 2002) (TBC)

Sergey Stanishev, MEP, S&D, Prime Minister, Republic of Bulgaria (2005 – 2009)

Geoffrey van Orden, MEP, Rapporteur for Bulgaria in the accession process

Prof. Lyubomir Ivanov, MP, VII Grand National Assembly (TBC)

Solomon Passy, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Bulgaria (2001 – 2005)

12:30 – 13:30 Buffet Lunch 

13:30 – 15:30 QUO VADIS EUROPE: GLOBALISM VS. POPULISM 

Moderator: Kiril Valchev, Journalist, Darik Radio (TBC)

Wolfgang Schüssel, Chancellor, Austria (2000 – 2007)

Graham Watson, President, ALDE Party (2011 – 2015)

Dick Roche, Minister for European Affairs of Ireland (2002 – 2004; 2007 – 2011)

Karl von Habsburg, President, Paneuropean Movement Austria

Lyubomir Kyuchukov, CEO, Economics and International Relations Institute

15:30 – 15:45 Coffee Break 

15:45 – 17:30 2018 –POLITICAL PRIORITIES OF THE FIRST BULGARIAN EU PRESIDENCY 

Denitsa Zlateva, Deputy Prime Minister for the Preparation of the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the EU, 2018 in the Caretaker Government (TBC)

Meglena Kuneva, Deputy Prime Minister for European Policies Coordination and Institutional Affairs (2014-2017)

Mariya Gabriel, MEP, EPP

Peter Kurumbashev, MEP, S&D

Ilhan Kyuchyuk, MEP, ALDE (TBC)

Lyudmila Dimitrova, Director, State Institute for Culture

17:30 COCKTAIL 

19:00 GALA CONCERT “ODE TO JOY”