The roundtable was organised by the Association for International Affairs and the Institute for Strategic Studies from Cracow with the support of the Czech-Polish Forum, the Open Society Fund, the Polish Embassy in Prague and the Polish Institute in Prague on 5 November 2009. The event welcomed more than 50 government officials, academia representatives and professionals in the sphere of business and diplomacy as well as interested public. The list of speakers included leading experts from think-tanks, universities and research organisations.
The opening remarks delivered H. E. Jan Pastwa, the ambassador of the Republic of Poland to the Czech Republic. Among speakers were, for example, Piotr Maciej Kaczyński, from the prestigious Brussels-based think-tank Centre for European Policy Studies, Janusz Onyszkiewicz, former Polish minister of defence, Břetislav Dančák from the Masaryk University in Brno or Volker Weichsel from the Osteuropa Journal.
The goal of the roundtable was to evaluate the Czech-Polish relations in last five to ten years, to describe current stance of the link between Prague and Warsaw and to launch the debate on the future of these relations. The debate focused on the Czech-Polish cooperation in the European, security and Eastern policy. There will be material outputs from the roundtable. First, a list of recommendations based on the debate and, second, a printed publication, which will encompass the roundtable proceedings and analysts’ articles
- Organizer
- AMO
- In cooperation with
- Institute for Strategic Studies from Cracow, Czech-Polish Forum, the Open Society Fund, the Polish Embassy in Prague and the Polish Institute