Friday 11 October

20h00-20h30
Opening dinner hosted by the Government at the House of Four Estates
- with Paavo Lipponen, Prime Minister of Finland

Saturday 12 October

09h00
SESSION ON FINLAND
chaired by Max Jakobson
Max Jakobson, former Ambassador to the United Nations
Sirkka Hämäläinen, Governor, Bank of Finland
Krister Ahlström, Chairman, Ahlström Group
General Gustav Hägglund, Commander-in-Chief, Finnish Defense Forces

11h00-12h15
SESSION ON THE BALTIC NATIONS
chaired by Otto Graf Lambsdorff
Lennart Meri, President of the Republic of Estonia
Ronald D. Asmus, Senior Analyst, The RAND Corporation

13h45-15h15
SESSION ON THE EUROPEAN UNION
chaired by Thorvald Stoltenberg and moderated by Cees Maas
- THE EMU MAASTRICHT DEBATE
Reimut Jochimsen, President, Central Bank of Northrhine-Westphalia, Düsseldorf; Member of the Central Bank Council of the Deutsche Bundesbank
- PROGRESS ON THE EU SINGLE MARKET
Mario Monti, Member of the European Commission

15h30-16h45
SESSION ON THE ATLANTIC ALLIANCE
chaired by Otto Graf Lambsdorff
- NATO’S ENLARGEMENT: A GERMAN PERSPECTIVE
Volker Rühe, Federal Minister of Defence, Germany
- A EUROPEAN SECURITY AND DEFENCE IDENTITY IN NATO
Sergio Balanzino, Deputy Secretary-General of NATO, Brussels

18h00-19h00
Official audience at the Presidency
Martti Ahtisaari, President of the Republic of Finland

19h30-22h00
Dinner hosted by the MERITA GROUP
Vesa Vainio, Chief Executive

Sunday 13 October
chaired by Otto Graf Lambsdorff

09h00-10h00
SESSION ON POLAND: THE “KEY COUNTRY” TO EU AND/OR NATO ENLARGEMENT
Dariusz Rosati, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Poland

10h00-10h30
EUROPE AND FORMER YUGOSLAVIA
Thorvald Stoltenberg, Former Co-Chairman (UN) of the Steering Committee of the International Conference on Former Yugoslavia; Former Foreign Minister of Norway; Ambassador to Denmark

10h45-12h45
SESSION ON RUSSIA IN EUROPE—“DEVELOPING A STRONG, STABLE AND ENDURING PARTNERSHIP” (European Council)
opened and moderated by:
Rodric Braithwaite, former British Ambassador to the USSR/Russia, updating his 1995 Trilateral report on “Engaging Russia”
Andrei Kortunov, Director, Russian Science Foundation; formerly at the Institute of USA and Canada, Russian Academy of Sciences
followed by comments by:
Timo Summa, Director Responsible for Relations with the NIS and Mongolia and in charge of the EU Technical Assistance Programme (TACIS), European Commission
Sergio Romano, Former Italian Ambassador to the USSR