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Announcement:
“SMALL STATES IN THE EUROPEAN UNION:
LESSONS AND FUTURE CHALLENGES”
29 April 2004 at 13.30 - 16.30
Helsinki University Museum, Auditorium Arppeanum
(2nd floor), Snellmaninkatu 3
Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence at the University of Turku in collaboration with the Embassy of Belgium in Helsinki shall organise a seminar on “Small States in the European Union: Lessons and Future Challenges” on Thursday 29 April from 13.30 to 16.30 at the Helsinki University Museum, Auditorium Arppeanum
(2nd floor), Snellmaninkatu 3.
The seminar is organised at the occasion of the publication of Professor Esko Antola’s book “Onko koolla merkitystä?” (“Does the size matter?”). The language of the seminar is English.
Programme:
13.30 – 14.00 Coffee
14.00 – 16.30 Opening remarks
Ambassador of Belgium to Finland Jan Van Dessel
“The Experience of Belgium”
Professor Christian Franck
Doctor in Political Science, Professor at the Institute of European Studies at the University of Louvain
“Six giants and seven dwarfs in the IGC”
Mr. Antti Peltomäki
State Secretary, EU Affairs, Prime Minister's Office
“The Power of Numbers? Small States in an Enlarged European Union”
Professor Esko Antola
Jean Monnet Chair, University of Turku
R.S.V.P. by 26 April to:
Ms. Terhi Suominen, e-mail: terhi.suominen@utu.fi, tel.: (02) 333 5886 or
Mrs. Corinne Strauven, e-mail: Ambel.helsinki@kolumbus.fi or tel.: (09) 170 412.
