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Preliminary Program
Vienna Process
2 nd Meeting 4-6. October, 2010
“Lessons from the Crisis: A New Architecture for EU-Russian Relations?”
under the auspices of ICEUR-Vienna
The working sessions (4-6 October, 2010) are open for invited participants.
The press conference on 7 October 2010 is freely accessible.
Please register under office@iceur-vienna.at
The crisis has reshuffled strategic priorities and promoted the awareness of commonalities
between the EU and Russia. The 2 nd expert meeting in the framework of the Vienna Process will
discuss new approaches and concrete projects in the field of banking and finance, industrial
cooperation and a new format of Russian-European interaction in the CIS markets.

4 October, 2010
Venue:
Spiegelsaal, Federation of Austrian Industries, Schwarzenbergplatz 4, 1040
16.00 Welcome addresses
Opening and Welcome
Erhard Busek, President, ICEUR-Vienna
Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Austria
Federal Ministry of Economy, Family and Youth of the Republic of Austria
Federal Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Austria
Federation of Austrian Industries
17.30 – 19.30 Working Session: New architecture in EU-NIS-Russian relations (part 1)
Panel 1: The search for Russian-EU commonalities in the CIS
Introductory note:
• Igor Yurgens - Chairman of the Management Board, Institute of Contemporary
Development /INSOR/ (confirmed). Key players in the CIS space: A new deal? (20 min.)
Statements by
• Stefan Füle, Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy (tbc)
• Sergei Kulik – Director for International Development, Institute of Contemporary
Development; Former Director, Department of Relations with the European Union,
Administration of the President of the Russian Federation
• Hilde Hardeman, Head, Relations with Russia unit, RELEX, European Commission (tbc)
• Michael Webb, EU Delegation to Russia (tbc)
• Hannes Swoboda, Member of the European Parliament (Austria)
20.00 Reception
Working languages: English, Russian; translation provided

5 October, 2010
Venue:
Spiegelsaal, Federation of Austrian Industries, Schwarzenbergplatz 4, 1040
9.30 - 11.30 Working Session: New architecture in EU-NIS-Russian relations (part 2)
General introductory note:
Mark Entin, Director of the European Studies Institute at the MGIMO-University of the Russian
Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Legal systems, standards (20 min.)
Comments:
Franz Cede, former Ambassador to Russia, Belgium and NATO; member, presidium, ICEUR
Panel 2: Russia-EU: A changing security environment?
Moderators:
• Dmitriy Trenin – Director of the Carnegie Center, Moscow
• Thomas Gomart - Director of the Russia/NIS Center at IFRI (Institut Français des Relations
Internationales), Paris (tbc.)
Presenters:
• Vladimir Voronkov, Director, Department of European Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign
Affairs of the Russian Federation (tbc)
• Johannes Eigner, Austrian Foreign Ministry, Department for Europe
• Konstantin Kosachev, Chairman, International Affairs Committee, State Duma of the
Russian Federation (tbc)
• Michael Emerson – CEPS, Brussels (tbc)
• Sergey Kortunov, Director, Department of World Politics, School of International Economics
and Foreign Affairs, School of Russian Studies (SRS), The State University - Higher School of
Economics (SU-HSE)
• Vladimir Baranovsky – Dep. Director IMEMO; formerly SIPRI, Stockholm, Deputy Director
MGIMO
• Fedor Lukyanov - Editor-in-chief, Russia in Global Affairs Journal, Moscow
• Frazer Cameron, Director EU-Russia Center, Brussels
11.30 Coffee Break

12.00 – 13.30 Working Session: Industrial cooperation
General introductory note:
Alexander Dynkin, Director, Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO),
Russian Academy of Sciences
Panel 3: Deepening the EU-Russian business dialogue: obstacles, constraints and perspectives
Moderators:
• Anatoly Chubais, EU – Russia Industrialists’ Round Table Co-chairman (Director General,
Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies - Rusnano) (tbc).
• Federation of Austrian Industries
Presenters:
• Alexander Murychev, Executive vice-president, Russian Union of Industrialists and
Entrepreneurs (tbc).
• EU – Russia Industrialists Round Table
• Lúcio Vinhas de Souza – European Commission, DG-ECFIN, Unit.D.3
• Evgeny Yuriev, President, “Business Russia”; President, ATON Capital Group (tbc)
• Representative of SIEMENS (tbc)
• Peter Havlik, Deputy Director of the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies
(WIIW)
• Alexei Kuznetsov – Head of the Centre for European Studies at the Institute of World
Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) Russian Academy of Sciences
• Anna Belova - Deputy Director of the Siberian Coal Energy Company (tbc)
• Representative of OMV
14.00 Working lunch, catering supplied
15.00 - 18.30 Working Session: Financial sector
Panel 4: The benefits of crisis? Cooperation in banking and investment
Introductory note:
• Agnieszka Skuratowicz, member, cabinet of the president, European Commission (tbc)
• Ruslan Grinberg, Director, Institute of Economics Russian Academy of Sciences (10 min)
Moderators:
• Bernhard Felderer, Director, Institute for Advanced Studies (HIS), Vienna
• Alexander Lebedev , Chairman, Russian National Investment Council

Presenters:
• Federal Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Austria
• Jan Carnogursky – Former Prime-minister of Slovakia (tbc)
• Brussels representatives
• Representative of Raiffeisen International
• Representative of UniCredit Group
20.00 Heuriger
6 October 2010
9.30 – 11.30 Working Session: Project presentations by company representatives
11.30 Coffee Break
11.45 - 13.00 Final discussion of Expert Position Paper (status, dissemination, follow-up)
Adoption of the expert position paper
Introductory note Ludmilla Lobova, Scientific Director, ICEUR Vienna (10 min)
Moderators:
• Gerald Hinteregger, former Secretary General, Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
Executive Secretary, UNECE, former Ambassador, USSR, Spain, etc.
• Sergey Utkin, Head of Section for Political Aspects of European Integration
at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations
13.00 Closing remarks
Working languages: English, Russian; translation provided
Reception
7. October 2010
11.00 Press conference