The Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) has the pleasure of inviting you to a seminar with Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Møller and Latvian Foreign Minister Artis Pabriks, who will be speaking on

The Role of Values in a Reunited Europe

Monday, 25 October 2004, 10.20–12.00

Eigtveds Pakhus, Room III, 2nd floor
Asiatisk Plads 2 G, 1448 Copenhagen K

On 29 October this year, the EU member states will sign the new Constitutional Treaty in Rome. The treaty has been called a “treaty of values”. What does this mean in practical terms and how do we ensure that the EU improves its ability to promote our common values both in Europe and globally?

Danish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Per Stig Møller, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Latvia, Mr. Artis Pabriks, will as representatives of an old and a new member state respectively provide a response to this question. The EU has often been criticised of being a remote and technocratic bureaucracy in Brussels, which mostly concerned itself with complicated subsidies and quotas.

The seminar will, however, focus on the fact that the European Union today is first and foremost a community of values consisting of 25 member states which have chosen to co-operate in order to build a peaceful, prosperous, secure and just Europe.

The seminar will be held in English.

Participation is free of charge, but registration is required by e-mail to no later than 22 October 2004 at 14.00.

Registrations must include name, organisation and e-mail address of the registered person(s), and DIIS must be informed by e-mail of any substitutions no later than at 09.00 on the day of the seminar.

Please await confirmation by e-mail for participation, as a print-out of the confirmation from DIIS must be brought to the seminar as admission pass.
Please be punctual (arrive no later than 10.15) – late arrivals will not be admitted.

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