EUROPEAN CROSS-BORDER COOPERATION

Among the speakers will be: Sir Ronnie Flanagan (RUC Chief Constable) on cross-border policing in Ireland; Dr Hermann Von Richthofen (Brandenburg Commissioner for German-Polish Relations, formerly German ambassador to the UK) on German-Polish border relations; Professor Liam O’Dowd (Queen’s University, Belfast) on the changing significance of state borders; Professor Edward Johnson (Cambridge University) on cross-border security cooperation; Professor Richard Macrory (Imperial College, London) on cross-border European environmental issues; Professor Sean Loughlin (University of Wales, Cardiff) on EU regionalization and cross-border cooperation; Professor John Bradley (Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin) on economic co-operation across the Irish border; Dr Gerhard Untiedt, (Institute for Economic Regional Analysis, Muenster) on Baltic countries’ cross-border relations; Dr Henrik Becker-Christensen, Danish Consul-General in Schleswig Holstein, on the history of Danish-German cross-border relations; Tanja Mattheus (Belgian Tourism Ministry) on Belgian-French cross-border relations; Jorg Saalbach (Pamina) on running a cross-border INTERREG secretariat between France and Germany; Frank Gallagher (Kent Constabulary) on cross-channel British-French police co-operation; Tim O’Connor (joint head, North-South Ministerial Council secretariat) on the cross-border institutions set up under the Belfast Agreement; Dr Martin Mansergh (special advisor to the Irish Taoiseach) on cross-border peace-making in Ireland; Eamon Gilmore TD (Irish Labour Party’s environment spokesman) on Sellafield as a cross-border environmental issue; John Palmer (Director-General, European Policy Centre, Brussels) on the lessons of Irish cross-border co-operation for Europe, and Paul Gillespie (Foreign Editor of the Irish Times) on the lessons of European cross-border co-operation for Ireland.