Brainstorming in Paris – Bertelsmann Foundation conference “The EU and its Neighbours – New Challenges and Opportunities”

In June, I was invited to discuss and exchange ideas among decision-makers and experts on the developments and the policy agenda with regard to the challenges in the EU Neighbourhood. The conference jointly organised by the Policy Planning Staff of the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of France and the Bertelsmann Stiftung was the third in the series (of meeting organised by the Bertelsmann Stiftung and the Planning staffs of the Foreign Ministries of the consecutive EU Presidencies since 2006)

Pierre Levy, Head of Policy Planning Staff of the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of France, Joachim Fritz-Vannahme, Director of the programme “Europe” at the Bertelsmann Stiftung, Dr Markus Ederer, Head of Policy Planning Staff, German Federal Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany were amongst the guests invited to the conference.

Paris