Europa-Forum Wachau 1997

“The Enlargement of the Union – Fundamental Question for Europe”

Saturday

• Erwin Pröll (Governor of Lower Austria, St. Pölten)
  “Lower Austria´s Chances in a Larger Europe”
• Anibal Cavaco Silva (Former Prime Minister, Lisbon)
  “The Enlargement of the European Union”
• Wladyslaw Bartoszewski (Former Minister for Foreign Affairs, Warsaw)
  “The Europe of the 21st Century – the Human Factor”

Working Groups

1. New Members – New Structures
2. Enlargement and the European Security Architecture
3. The Common Europe and the Security of the Citizens
4. An Enlarged International Market – Common Currency – Opportunities and Risks

Sunday

• Karl Lamers (Member of the German Bundestag)
  “The Union on the Threshold of Enlargement”
• Arpad Göncz (President of the Republic of Hungary)
  “After 1989 – Onwards to the Reunification of Europe”
• Wolfgang Schüssel (Vice Chancellor, Minister  for Foreign Affairs, Vienna)
  “European Perspectives”