Events

The Institute of international relations and political science of the University of Vilnius and the Robert Schuman Foundation organised a conference held from the 17th to 19th of October to study relations between the European Union and the Kaliningrad enclave. Among the participants were Antanas Valionis, Foreign Minister of Lithuania, Vladimir Lukin, vice-president of the Douma of the Russian Federation, Claude Goasguen, a French National Assembly deputy from Paris, and Loïc Bouvar, a deputy from Morbihan.

On October 17th and 18th, the Institute of International Relations and of Political Science of Vilnius University and the Robert Schuman Foundation organised a conference to deal with relations between the European Union and Kaliningrad enclave. Amongst the guests, Antanas Valionis, Minister of Foreign Affairs in Lithuania, Vladimir Lukin, vice-president of the Douma of the Russian Federation, Claude Goasguen, deputy of Paris and Loïc Bouvard, deputy of Morbihan, were present.

At Robert Schuman University in Strasbourg on September 30th, a Romanian translation of Robert Schuman's book For Europe was presented to the public. The preface was written by the Romanian prime minister, Adrian Nastase and the translation carried out by Pompilius Celan, the Romanian ambassador to the Council of Europe.

The Robert Schuman Foundation organised, with the Political Training Institute of Kiev (Ukraine) and in cooperation with the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the French Embassy, on September 25,26, and 27, the first training seminar for young professionals wishing to change Ukraine's political landscape. The seminar was conducted by French members of parliament and by Jean-Dominique GIULIANI, the Foundation's chairman.

What will France do to change, adapt itself, and invent without Europe, in this world that has become our own, with its new constraints, its new demands in terms of quality and safety but also its new possibilities?

From September 11th to September 13th, the Chairman of the Robert Schuman Foundation, Jean-Dominique Giuliani, went to Latvia to participate in a conference on Europe at Riga University, within the framework of manifestations organised in favour of a "yes" for the EU accession referendum of September 20th.

Seminar: Asia- Europe September 16th, Robert Schuman Foundation and Institut Choiseul for International Politics.

With almost 8000 deaths on the roads in 2002 - the first cause of mortality for people aged between 20 and 30 - France is one of the European countries the most affected by road accidents.

European area of Justice and Security has developed until today in a pragmatic way.

Memories of Sandra Kalniete, Latvian Minister of Foreign Affairs and former ambassador of Latvia in France. Her parents were sent to a gulag in Siberia where she was born in 1952, and where she lived for five years before going back to Latvia in 1957.