A WORKSHOP INITIATIVE OF EUROPEAN AND RUSSIAN THINK TANKS
EUROPEAN-RUSSIAN DIALOGUE:
FROM DAMAGE LIMITATION TO RENEWED ENGAGEMENT
Rome, Monday 13 October 2014
Confirmed Participants
Anatoliy ADAMISHIN, President, ASSOCIATION FOR EURO-ATLANTIC COOPERATION
Marco ALBERTI, Head of International and Institutional Affairs, ENEL spa
Vladimir ANDRIANOV, Head of Department, Department for Strategic Analysis and Development, Vnesheconombank
Giancarlo ARAGONA, President, ISPI
José María BENEYTO, Vice President, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Madrid, Spain
Irina BUSYGINA, Professor of the Comparative Politics Department, MGIMO University
Sergey CHERNYSHOV, EURASIAN ECONOMIC COMMISSION
Vladimir CHKHIKVISHVILI, Former Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation
Jarosław ĆWIEK-KARPOWICZ, Research Director, PISM
Marta DASSÙ, Senior Director, European Affairs, The Aspen Institute; Director, Aspenia
Benedetto DELLA VEDOVA, Undesecretary of State, ItalianMinistry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
Arnaud DUBIEN, Director, L’Observatoire – Centre D’Analyse de la CCI France Russie
Alexander DYNKIN, Director, INSTITUTE OF WORLD, ECONOMY AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Aldo FERRARI, Senior Associate Research Fellow, ISPI
Vladimir FEYGIN, President, INSTITUTE OF ENERGY AND FINANCE
Silvia FRANCESCON, Director, ECFR Rome
Luca GIANSANTI, Director General for Political and Security Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International
Cooperation
Thomas GOMART, Senior Research Fellow, Vice President for Strategic Development, IFRI
Alexei GROMYKO, Director, Institute of Europe RAS
Manfred HAFNER, Professor, Sciences Po Paris and Associate Researcher, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM)
Luigi IPPOLITO, Head of Foreign Affairs Desk, Corriere della Sera
Wolfgang ISCHINGER, Chairman, Munich Security Conference – MSC
Igor IVANOV, President, RIAC
Andrey KORTUNOV, Director General, RIAC
Sergey KULIK, Director for International Development, Institute for Contemporary Development - INSOR
Monica MAGGIONI, Editor in Chief, RAINEWS24
With the support of
The Trilateral Commission (Europe)
Under the patronage of
Paolo MAGRI, Executive Vicepresident and Director, ISPI; Secretary, ITALIAN GROUP OF THE TRILATERAL COMMISSION
Manuela MARIANERA, Research Department, Confindustria
Neil MELVIN, Senior Researcher, SIPRI
Aleksei MESHKOV, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
Alessandro MINUTO RIZZO, Chairman, NATO Defence College
Antonio MISSIROLI, Director, European Union Institute for Security Studies – EuISS
James NIXEY, Head of the Russia and Eurasia Programme, CHATHAM HOUSE
Andrzej OLECHOWSKI, former Minister of Finance (1992) and Foreign Affairs (1993–1995) of Poland
Giuseppe PARIGI, Head of the International Relations Directorate, Banca d’Italia
Stefano PONTECORVO, Diplomatic Advisor to the Italian Minister of Defence
Nicu POPESCU, Senior Analyst, European Union Institute for Security Studies – EuISS
Katri PYNNÖNIEMI, Senior Research Fellow, Finnish Institute of International Affairs - FIIA
Lia QUARTAPELLE, Secretary, Foreign and European Community Affairs Standing Committee, Italian Chamber of
Deputies
Cesare RAGAGLINI, Italian Ambassador to Russia (tbc)
Sergey RAZOV, Russian Ambassador to Italy (tbc)
Andrea ROMANO, Member of Italian Parliament
Paul REVAY, Director, TRILATERAL COMMISSION EUROPE
Pierfrancesco SACCO, Head of the Research, Policy planning and historical diplomatic Documentation Unit, Ministry of
Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
Ferdinando SALLEO, Vice President, ITALIAN GROUP OF THE TRILATERAL COMMISSION and Former Italian Ambassador
to Russia
Giuseppe SCOGNAMIGLIO, Executive Vice President, Head of Public Affairs Department, Unicredit Spa
Carlo SECCHI, Chairman, ITALIAN GROUP OF THE TRILATERAL COMMISSION
Francesca SFORZA, Journalist, La Stampa
Natela SHENGELIYA, Head of Representative office of Renova Group in Italy
Andrey A. SLEPNEV, Member of the Board (Minister) for Trade, EURASIAN ECONOMIC COMMISSION
Liborio STELLINO, Director for Russian Federation, Eastern Europe, Caucasus, and Central Asia, Italian Ministry of Foreign
Affairs and International Cooperation
Elena TELEGINA, Director, INSTITUTE OF ENERGY AND GEOPOLITICS
Ivan TIMOFEEV, Director of Programs, RIAC
Ugo TRAMBALLI, Journalist, Il Sole 24Ore
Michele VALENSISE, Secretary General, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
Armando VARRICCHIO, Diplomatic Counsellor to the Italian Prime Minister
Andrew WILSON, Senior Policy Fellow, ECFR
Andrew WOOD, Associate Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Programme, CHATHAM HOUSE, Former British Ambassador to
Russia
Igor YURGENS, Chairman of the Management Board, Institute for Contemporary Development – INSOR
Antonio ZANARDI LANDI, Diplomatic Advisor to the Italian President of the Republic
With the support of
The Trilateral Commission (Europe)
Under the patronage of
A WORKSHOP INITIATIVE OF EUROPEAN AND RUSSIAN THINK TANKS
EUROPEAN-RUSSIAN DIALOGUE:
FROM DAMAGE LIMITATION TO RENEWED ENGAGEMENT
Rome, Monday 13 October 2014
8.30 - 9.00 a.m.
Registration
9.00 - 9.30 a.m.
Welcome
Giancarlo ARAGONA, ISPI; Igor IVANOV, RIAC; Carlo SECCHI, Trilateral Commission Italian Group
Opening Session
Aleksei MESHKOV, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
Benedetto DELLA VEDOVA, Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and
International Cooperation
9.30 a.m. - 12.15 p.m.
Session I
“Political and Security Issues”
How to increase the level of trust between Russia and Europe taking into account the crisis in
Ukraine? How to overcome the legacy of the Cold War? How to live in the common
neighbourhood and jointly shape a new European security architecture that minimizes the risks
of crises?
Kick off: Wolfgang ISCHINGER, Munich Security Conference (MSC); Igor IVANOV, RIAC; Thomas
GOMART, IFRI; Alexei GROMYKO, Institute of Europe RAS; Irina BUSYGINA, MGIMO University
Chair: Giancarlo ARAGONA, ISPI
Debate among participants
12.15 - 1.00 p.m.
Buffet Lunch
1.00 - 3.45 p.m.
Session II
“Economic, Energy and Business Relations”
What future for Europe-Russia economic relations in the light of imposed sanction regimes
leading to reciprocal measures? What future for EU-Russia energy relations and Arctic
cooperation? How to tackle a growing economic continental divide with, in this context, any
future for EU-Eurasian Economic Union institutional cooperation?
Kick off: Alexander DYNKIN, Institute of world, economy and international relations; Vladimir
FEYGIN, Institute of Energy and Finance; Manfred HAFNER, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei/
Sciences Po Paris; Neil MELVIN, SIPRI; Andrey SLEPNEV, Eurasian Economic Commission; Elena
TELEGINA, Institute of energy and geopolitics; Andrew WOOD, Chatham House/Former British
Ambassador to Russia.
Chair: Igor YURGENS, Institute for Contemporary Development (INSOR)
Debate among participants
Conclusions
Giancarlo ARAGONA, ISPI; Igor IVANOV, RIAC; Paul REVAY, Trilateral Commission Europe
With the support of
The Trilateral Commission (Europe)
Under the patronage of