Madariaga - College of Europe Foundation

Thursday 3 - Friday 4 December 2009

This Conference was jointly organised at the Palais des Academies in connection with the Europalia festival by the Agence Wallone à l'Exportation et aux Investissements Etrangers (AWEX), la Cité Internationale and the Confucius Institute of Liège. The parallel workshops and final panels were organised in collaboration with the Brussels Institute of Contemporary China Studies, the Centre for Ethnic and Migration Studies, the Belgian-Chinese Chamber of Commerce and the Madariaga - College of Europe Foundation, which was responsible for:

- a workshop on "China and the World Economy" - 4 December, from 10.00 to 12.00, with the participation of Pierre Defraigne, Executive Director of the Madariaga - College of Europe Foundation, Francoise Lemoine, Senior Economist at CEPII (Paris), Jean Christophe Defraigne, Lecturer at Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis - Centre for research in economics and Dr. Doris Fischer, Economist at the German Development Institute.

- the final panel on EU-China Relations - 4 December, from 15.30 to 17.30, with the participation of Song Xinning, Senior Research Fellow at UNU-CRIS and Jean Monnet Professor at Renmin University of China, Men Jing, InBev-Baillet Latour Chair of European Union - China Relations, College of Europe and Senior Researcher of Chinese Foreign Policy, Brussels Institute of Contemporary China Studies and François Godement, Professor and Director, Asia Centre at Sciences Po and Senior fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations.

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