Beyond the Wall: Opening address by Joachim Bitterlich
| 14/12/2009 
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This speech was pronounced by Joachim Bitterlich as an opening to the high level conference convened by Notre Europe in Belgrade over the 14th and 15th of December 2009. It clarifies the reasons which led us to organize this event on the territory of the former-Yugoslavia, a few short weeks after the celebrations of the twentieth anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall.


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The author
Joachim Bitterlich
Bitterlich was the Foreign and Security Policy Advisor to Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl (1993 - 98), then the Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Federal Republic of Germany to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation in Brussels, and in the years 1999 - 2002 the Ambassador to Spain. In 2003, he joined Veolia Environnement in Paris as Executive Vice President International Affairs". He is Vice-President of Notre Europe.
In view
Beyond the Wall: Twenty years of Europeanisation as seen from the former Yugoslavia
Tamara Buschek, Aziliz Gouez | 17/11/2009
Programme of the conference held by Notre Europe and Kulturni Front in Belgrade over the 14th and 15th of December 2009.
See also
"The EU and the Lisbon Treaty: A New Chance for Serbia?"
Tribune by Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa | 02/03/2010
This speech was pronounced at the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia on the occasion of a conference organised by Notre Europe in Belgrade on 16th of December 2009.
Beyond the Wall: "State and states of the former Yugoslavia"
Note by Pierre Mirel | 22/01/2010
The end of the year 2009 was marked by a series of good news concerning Serbia's European perspective. In this speech pronounced at the Belgrade Conference in December 2009, Pierre Mirel (Director, DG Enlargement) goes through the latest updates from the negotiations between the EU and the former Yugoslav countries. He also outlines the principal challenges that stand in the way of these countries' advancement towards EU accession.
Project
European Identity
Research project