"Europe - France - Turkey: Time to Make Choices"
Venue: Grand Tarabya Hotel, İstanbul
Program:
08.30 Welcoming coffee
08.45 Opening session
Kemal Derviş, Vice President of Brookings Institute, Member of Sabancı University International Board of Overseers and Co-president of Institut du Bosphore Scientific Committee
Anne Lauvergeon, President, Innovation 2030 Commission France
Muharrem Yılmaz, Chairman, TUSIAD
09.15 TRANSATLANTIC SCENARIOS
The interdependence of all France-Turkey-EU-US, economically, is a reality that benefits all in an active and constant search for structure and balance: G20, free trade agreements, management crisis and financial regulation ... many sectors attest (industry, transport, automotive, energy, consumer goods, tourism etc.) What are the prospects for the integration of Turkey into the European Union in terms of different possible transatlantic and global scenarios?
Chaired by Joachim Bitterlich, Former Ambassador, Prof. ESCP – Europe Paris and Scientific Committee member, Institut du Bosphore
Osman F. Boyner, CEO, Boyner Textile Industry and CEO, BD Otomotiv & Board Member, TÜSİAD and President of Global Economic Relations Committee, TÜSİAD
Patrick Hanish, Political and Economic Chief, U.S. Consulate General – Istanbul
Jacques Mistral, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution & member of the Cercle des Economistes, Research Director at IFRI
Martin Raiser, Country Director for Turkey, World Bank
Murat Yapıcı, Director General, EU Affairs, Ministry of Economy
10.30 Coffee Break
11.00 WORKSHOPS: « EUROPEAN UNION-TURKEY: COOPERATIONS, PARTNERSHIPS, AND ACTIONS »
Workshops will take place simultaneously. Translations in French and in English will be available. Reports of all three sessions will be distributed by email after the Seminar.
Workshop I Science, R&D, innovation: what’s next?
The workshop will give highlights on the achieved and ongoing technological partnerships and incentive policies implemented by the Turkish government. What kind of technology-based partnerships for the future?
Chaired by Cüneyt Başaran, Broadcasting Coordinator, Bloomberg HT
Hüseyin Gelis, President and CEO, Siemens Turkey
Simone Kaslowski, CEO, Organik Holding, Member of the Board, TÜSİAD and President of EU Affairs Committee, TÜSİAD
Nathalie Loiseau, Director, l’Ecole Nationale d’Administration française (ENA)
Sebastien Crozier, Director General, Orange Horizons
Workshop II EU-Turkey: complementarity in energy related issues?
How is Turkey building its « energetic Hub » strategy? What are our common energetic achievements and perspectives?
The workshop will question the European energetic security approach and could focus on the nuclear question.
Chaired by Claude Fischer, President, Confrontations Europe and Scientific Committee member, Institut du Bosphore
Zeki Eriş, CEO, Polat Enerji
Selahattin Hakman, Chairman, EnerjiSa
Cécile Maisonneuve, Director of Center for Energy, IFRI
Denis Simonneau, Member of the Executive Committee, Director of European and International Relations, GDF SUEZ
Workshop III Acting local
Does the decentralized cooperation act as the engine of the European construction and enforce European competitiveness? In the wake of France’s support for the opening of the acquis chapter “Regional policy and coordination of structural instruments”, the workshop will endeavor treating the developments of regional policies in France and in Turkey.
Chaired by Alain Delcamp, Former Secretary General, French Senate & Vice-president of the French Association of Constitutionalists & Scientific Committee Member, Institut du Bosphore
Nahit Bingöl, Director General, Structural Harmonization and Regional Development, Ministry of Development, Turkey
Paul Giacobbi, Deputy PRG & President of Executive Council of Corsica
Süleyman Onatça, President, Türkonfed
Bernard Soulage, Member of the Working Group on Relations with Turkey, Committee of Regions, Vice-President of Rhone Alpes Region & Scientific Committee Member, Institut du Bosphore
Henry Zipper de Fabiani, Ambassador for the regions, French Ministry of Foreign affairs
12.30 Lunch & Closing session
Didier Billion, Deputy Director, IRIS and Publications Coordinator, Institut du Bosphore
Bahadır Kaleağası, President, Institut du Bosphore
Alain Bauer, President, CSFRS
14.45 End of seminar