Co-organizers: Social-Liberal Institute, Self-Governance and Democracy Foundation, Fundation Industrial publisher of Liberté!

Support: European Liberal Forum, Friederich Naumann Stiftung

Venue- Warsaw, Hotel Radisson Blue Sobieski, Artur Zawisza Sq. 1, time- 31.05-1.06.2013

 Friday 31^st of May

16.00-19.00 -Ralf Dahrendorf Roundtable session.(Polish-English simultaneous  translation)

• Opening of the conference
• Welcome by State Minister Dr. Jurgen Martens (Vice President of the European Liberal Forum, State Minister for Justice and European Affairs, Saxony).

Panel debate on the subject: Cutting the Gordian Knot- extracting Europe from the crisis.

Issues to be adressed:

Is the financial crisis in Europe a result of extended social programs or poor financial and fiscal policy, liberal state versus a state with extended policy of social solidarity  (is a compatibility possible?), ways out of the crisis.

• Panelists: Guy Verhofstadt, Jerzy Osiatyński, Dariusz Rosati,
• Moderator: Andrzej Olechowski

19.00 – 22.00 Dinner for invited guests.

Saturday 1^st of June

9.00-11.00 Session 2 (domestic)- Social- liberal and liberal- democratic ideas in Polish political discourse of the last decade.

• Moderator: Prof. Jerzy Szacki
• Panelists:  Jan Hartman , Tomasz Jastrun,  Piotr Beniuszys

11.00-11.30 coffee break

11.30-13.30 Session 3 (domestic)- Role and the future of political center-left and liberal- democratic parties in Poland

• Moderator: Janusz Onyszkiewicz
• Panelists: Marek Borowski ,Andrzej Celiński, Aleksander Kwaśniewski. Janusz Palikot, Paweł Piskorski

13.30 coffee, press conference.

Comments:

• Andrzej Olechowski -former minister of finance , liberal
• Jerzy Osiatyński- former minister of finance (Union for Freedom, Democratic Party)
• Dariusz Rosati- former Minister of Foreign Affairs, MEP in PES(2004-2009), at present the chairman of the Finance Committee of Polish Parliament
• Guy Verhofstadt- former Prime Minister of Belgium, Chairman of ALDE group in the European Parliament

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