Think Tank
Visegrad Insight Breakfasts
Event: Visegrad Insight Breakfast – Economic security in Central and Eastern Europe
4 October 2024
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ZIELNA Center, Zielna 37, Warsaw, 6th floor, Europa Room
The Visegrad Insight and the Heinrich Böll Foundation invite to an international public conference to discuss with politicians and experts differentiated perspectives of Germany and Poland on the future role of gas as a part of the national energy strategies, but also of the common ambitious European energy and climate policy. Geopolitics, economy, but also technology and ecology are the issues that are the most important in the Polish-German discussion about the European energy solidarity and security. How do the questions concerning the role and use of gas impact the relations between the European countries and the EU as a whole? In what way can an understanding of different interests and a constructive dialogue about the current state and future vision of the European energy security be developed?
Agenda
| 9:00-9:30am | Registration and coffee |
| 9:30am-9:40am | Welcome remarks:
Wojciech Przybylski, Visegrad Insight, Res Publica Irene Hahn-Fuhr, Heinrich Böll Foundation in Warsaw
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| 9:40am-11:10am | Opening conversation:
Maciej Woźniak, Vice-President of the Management Board, PGNiG Reinhard Bütikofer, Member of the European Parliament, Germany, Co-Chair of the European Green Party |
| 11:10am-11:30am | Coffee break |
| 11:30am-1:00pm |
Panel Session 1 Energy Security and Solidarity – Gas Between Politics and Economy Aleksandra Gawlikowska-Fyk, Head of the International Economic Relations and Energy Policy Programme, Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM), Poland Maciej Ciszewski, Team Leader, Security of Supply Unit, DG Energy, European Commission Dr. Andrej Nosko, Visiting Assistant Professor, Matej Bel University, Banská Bystrica, Slovak Republic Robert Sperfeld, Heinrich Böll Foundation, Berlin chair: Wojciech Przybylski, Visegrad Insight, Res Publica |
| 1:00pm-2:00pm | Lunch |
| 2:00pm-3:30pm |
Panel session 2 Gas as “Transition Fuel” towards a Future Based on Renewables? Ecology, Technology, Economics Marcelo Masera, Head of Unit “Energy Security, Distribution and Markets”, Energy, Transport and Climate Directorate, European Commission Marcin Stoczkiewicz, Senior Lawyer, Head of Central & Eastern Europe, ClientEarth Warsaw Sebastian Scholz, Head of Energy and Climate Policy, Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union, Berlin chair: Wojciech Jakóbik, Biznes Alert |
| 3:30pm-4:00pm | Closing remarks |
