8.45

Registration

9.15

Welcome address (José de Faria Costa, Dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra)

9.30

1^st Session: The EU in a globalized world

Introductory speech (Castro Guerra, Portuguese Secretary of State of Innovation)

• The new map of the world (Manuel Porto, ECSA World President)
• Globalization as opportunity and threat to small sized enterprises (Andrej Kumar, ECSA Slovenia President)
• Law and globalization (Vlasta Kunova, ECSA Slovakia President)
• Globalization and higher education: problems and directions (Tanel Kerikmae, ECSA Estonia President)
• Challenges and perspectives for the Lima Summit (2008): the future of Latin America – European Union relations (Luíz Octávio Pimentel, ECSA Latin America President)

12.00

Manuel Lobo Antunes (Portuguese Secretary of State for European Integration)

14.30

2^nd Session: The Limits of the EU

• Alternative models of relations: half-way to membership? (Tibor Palánkai, ECSA Hungary President)
• Myths and reality in the Baltic States: three years after accession to the EU (Tatjana Muravska, ECSA Latvia President)
• South-Eastern Europe beyond the last enlargement of the European Union (Dinko Dinkov, ECSA Bulgaria President)
• Accession of Turkey and EU Relations (Haluk Kabaalioglu, ECSA Turkey President)

16.00

3^rd Session: The problems of Governance in the EU

• Current issues in European economic Governance (Nico Groenendijk, ECSA Netherlands President)
• European law versus EU management of changes (Desa Mikotin Tomic, ECSA Croatia President)
• The reforming treaty: a new model for governance in the European Union? (Paulo de Pitta e Cunha, ECSA Portugal President)
• The impact of enlargement on EU governance, symptoms and consequences (Péter Balázs, Center for EU Enlargement Studies Professor, University of Budapest)
• Budget allocation in an expanding EU - a power politics view (Mika Widgrén, ECSA Finland President)
• The Lisbon Treaty and the political governance of the EU: transforming the basic institutional equilibrium? (Miguel Gorjão-Henriques)

24^th November

9.00

4^th Session: The Conditions for a sustainable development (with particular attention given to the problems of energy)

• The coming environmental challenges (Rosário Pais, European Commission)
• Sustainable development: challenges inside and outside Europe (Alexandra Aragão, Jean Monnet Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Coimbra)
• El dilema económico del corto plazo vs el largo plazo: crecimiento y/o desarrollo sostenible (Sára González, ECSA Spain
• The management of the water resources: a world problem? (Paulo Canelas de Castro, Jean Monnet Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Macau)
• Energetic issues with sustainable development (Luís Morais, Faculty of Law, University of Lisbon)

11.00

Meeting of the ECSA Presidents

(With the participation of Mr. Ettore Deodato and Mr. Luciano Di Fonzo)