Contents

• Opening
• Welcome address by Jerzy Buzek - EP President
• The EU foreign policy in a 10-year perspective
• Presentation of the book "Europe 2020 - Civic Vision"
• Essays - "Europe Scholarship"
• Which voice for Europe when speaking with Russia?
• Europe and its common history
• Questions and answers
• Conclusions - Europe's future
• Closing of the discussion

2010 is the first year after the coming into force of the Lisbon Treaty, reforming the European Union. Simultaneously, the Union is thinking of its next long-term strategy, Europe 2020. Thus, this year has all the good reasons to remain in history as the beginning of a new stage in the overall development of the European Union and its member states. What would the European Union be like in 2020 as a global player on the international scene: the European Union being the third force in terms of population after India and China? 

How to address the citizens’ concerns – about energy supplies, the EU-Russia relations, the enlargement… Our guests were invited to comment on the messages of the recent developments of the EU-Russia relations (Russia-Poland, Russia-the Ukraine, US-EU Summit in Prague), as well as on the Eastern Partnership, the S&D “Enlargement 2014” initiative, the expectations on the advancement of the EU-Turkey negotiations by 2020.