20th Annual Review Conference on the Foreign and European Policy of the Slovak Republic
20th Annual Review Conference on the Foreign and European Policy of the Slovak Republic
We would like to invite you to the 20th Annual Review Conference on the Foreign and European Policy of the Slovak Republic, which will be held on Frebruary 15, 2022.
The Annual Review Conference is a platform that plays a special role in the public foreign policy debate. However, the uniqueness of this year's conference lies in its scope - it will evaluate a specific period exceeding one year, a period of changing geopolitics, the creation of a new security and foreign policy environment, or global transformation processes.
Research Center of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association (SFPA) and the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic have the honor to invite you to the 20th Annual Review Conference on the Foreign and European Policy of the Slovak Republic. The conference will be held online on February 15, 2022, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME:
9:00 – 9:10 ｜ Opening Remarks
JURAJ STERN, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the SFPA
IVAN KORČOK, Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic
9:10 – 9:30 Address by ZUZANA ČAPUTOVÁ, President of the Slovak Republic
9:35 – 10:45 ｜ PANEL I : European policy of the Slovak Republic – main challenges
Chair: PAVOL DEMEŠ, member of the BoD, SFPA
Panellists: MARTIN KLUS, State Secretary, MFEA SR
MIRIAM LEXMANN, Member of the European Parliament
KATARÍNA CSÉFALVAYOVÁ, Institute for central Europe
RADOVAN GEIST, Euractiv
11: 00 – 11:20 Address by EDUARD HEGER, Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic
11:25 – 12:55 ｜PANEL II: The Changing Global Security Environment
Chair: ANDREJ MATIŠÁK, Pravda
JAROSLAV NAĎ, Minister of Defence of the Slovak Republic
11:55-12:55
Chair: ANDREJ MATIŠÁK, Pravda
Panellists: MARIAN MAJER, State Secretary of the Ministry of Defence of the Slovak Republic
LUCIA YAR, Euractiv
KATARÍNA KLINGOVÁ, Globsec
ALEXANDER DULEBA, SFPA
13:40 – 14:00 Address by BORIS KOLLÁR, Speaker of the National Council of the Slovak Republic (TBC)
14:10 – 15:20 ｜ PANEL III: Economic diplomacy and development cooperation as tools of Slovak foreign policy
Chair: SOŇA MUZIKÁŘOVÁ, Globsec Chief Economist
Panellists: INGRID BROCKOVÁ, State Secretary, MFEA SR
ANDREA NAJVIRTOVÁ, Board Member of the Ambrela platform
JOZEF VISKUPIČ, President of the Trnava Self-Governing Region
ALENA BALOGOVÁ, CEO Chemosvit Fibrochem, ltd.
ERVIN HARAMIA, Chairman of the Board, Aliter Technologies
IVAN KORČOK, Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic
Due to restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic, it will be possible to watch the conference in Slovak on the SFPA Facebook and in English on the SFPA YouTube channel. You can join the discussion using the Slido (# HK22).
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