Međunarodna konferencija „Hrvatska na pragu članstva u Europskoj uniji: put reformi“ je održana u Zagrebu, 29. i 30. travnja 2010.

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Croatia’s challenging reform process to meet EU accession requirements, its present neighbourly relations and its future role in the EU’s enlargement policy were the main subjects of a major international conference that took place in Zagreb. This event gave the opportunity to high-ranking decision makers and key experts from Croatia, Austria, France and some other South-Eastern European countries to explore these challenging questions and to develop new ideas with regard to them.

Among other distinguished speakers, H.E. Ivan ŠIMONOVIĆ, Minister of Justice of the Republic of Croatia, Andrej PLENKOVIĆ, State Secretary for European Integration (Croatian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration), Davor LJUBANOVIĆ, State Secretary for the Croatian Ministry of Public Administration, Vesna PUSIĆ, Member of the Croatian Parliament and President of the National Committee for Monitoring the EU Accession Negotiations, Ursula PLASSNIK, Member of the Austrian Parliament and former Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ivan VEJVODA, Executive Director of the Balkan Trust for Democracy in Belgrade and H.E. Vladimir DROBNJAK, Chief Negotiator for Accession Negotiations with the European Union, participated in the conference.

This high-level event was organized by the Austro-French Centre for Rapprochement in Europe and the French Institute for International Relations (IFRI), in collaboration with the Zagreb-based Institute for International Relations (IMO) as well as the Croatian Center for the Renewal of Culture (COK) and with the friendly support of the Volksbank Hrvatska.

The fact that about 180 persons were present at the first conference day, and about 100 persons at the second conference day, demonstrated the importance of the discussed topics. The Medias were also very well represented by several journalists from Newspaper and Television.

A Report about the conference is available on our homepage.

In Croatia the Austro-French Centre was supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration (by providing the venue of the Reception) as well as by the Embassies of Austria and France, represented by its Ambassadors H.E. Jan KICKERT and H.E. Jérôme PASQUIER. We want especially thank the First Secretary of the French Embassy, Ms. Salina GRENET, as well as the Minister Plenipotentiary of the Austrian Embassy, Mr. Michael KAINZ.

The “Institute for International Relations (IMO)”, under the direction of Mrs. Sanja TIŠMA, was one of the co-organisers of the conference, and we want to thank Mrs. Višnja SAMARDŽIJA and Mr. Mladen STANIČIĆ, and especially their assistant, Mr. Saša ČVRLJAK, for all the support and help during the conference preparations, but also during and after the conference.

The “Croatian Center for the Renewal of Culture (COK)” was the other co-organiser and we want to express our thanks to the President of COK, Mr. Stephen BARTULICA.

Last but not least we would like to thank the Volksbank Hrvatska - represented by its Chairman of the Board, Mr. Tomasz TARABA, for having sponsored our conference.