Centre for Economic and Regional Studies Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre of Excellence

The Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the International Visegrad Fund
in cooperation with the following partners

Warsaw School of Economics (PL), Institute for European Policy in Prague (CZ),
Institute of Economic Research, SAS (SK)

are inviting you to the international conference and book launch

Prospects of the Visegrad cooperation:
identifying converging and diverging factors

to be held on 21 July 2015, at 1014 Budapest, Országház utca 30.; “Jakobinus Hall”

Programme

09.00 - 09.30 Registration
09.30 - 09.40 Opening of the conference
09.40 - 10.00 András Inotai (Research professor, Institute of World Economics – Centre for Economic and Regional Studies HAS)
Facing a triple challenge: how to coincide/reconcile the impact of global development, the future of European integration and the perspective of regional cooperation
10.00 - 10.15 Krisztina Vida (Senior Researcher, Institute of World Economics – Centre for Economic and Regional Studies HAS)
Challenges of EU governance trends and future perspectives of V4 cooperation
10.15 - 10.30 Dániel Bartha (Executive Director, Centre for Euro-Atlantic Integration and Democracy)
Deepening Visegrad - What could be the future agenda of the V4 cooperation?
10.30 - 10.45 András Rácz (Senior Researcher, Finnish Institute of International Affairs)
Russia as a dividing (?) factor in the Visegrad cooperation
10.45 - 11.10 Discussion
11.10 - 11.25 Coffee break
11.25 - 11.45 Elżbieta Kawecka-Wyrzykowska (Professor of Economics, Warsaw School of Economics)
Recent challenges of EU governance - Poland’s perspectives
11.45 - 12.05 Vladimír Bartovič (Director, EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy)
Visegrad cooperation from the Czech Republic’s perspective
12.05 - 12.25 Boris Hošoff (Researcher, Institute of Economic Research, Slovak Academy of Sciences)
Visegrad cooperation from the Slovak Republic’s perspective
12.25 - 12.45 Judit Kiss (Research professor, Institute of World Economics – Centre for Economic and Regional Studies HAS)
Is there a social compatibility among the Visegrad countries?
12.45 - 13.05 Gábor Túry (Researcher, Institute of World Economics – Centre for Economic and Regional Studies HAS)
Emerging Visegrad countries are the engine of Europe, but what about the fuel?
13.05 - 13.30 Discussion
13.05 - 14.00 Buffet lunch
18.00 - Dinner for speakers

Your registration and participation can be confirmed at the address: vgi.titkarsag@krtk.mta.hu
We would like to kindly remind you that registration is required!

The conference is part of the project „Prospects of the Visegrad cooperation in changing economic, political and social conditions“ financed by the Visegrad Strategic Program (Strategic Grant) project number: 31210045.