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Day 1

Thursday, Dec 01

Day 2

Friday, Dec 02

Day 3

Saturday, Dec 03

Dec 01 9:00 am – 12:00 am CET

01
Dec

09:00 – 12:00 CET

MED Fora

Forum NATO

Dec 01 13:00 pm – 16:00 pm CET

01
Dec

14:00 – 18:00 CET

MED Fora

Forum Migration

Dec 02 9:00 am – 12:00 am CET

02
Dec

10:00 – 11:00 CET

MED Panels

Opening Ceremony

with: Mohamed Bazoum, Mohamed Cheikh El Ghazouani, Giampiero Massolo, Sergio Mattarella, Antonio Tajani

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02
Dec

11:00 – 12:00 CET

MED Panels

After Ukraine: Global Order(s) Reshaping

with: Ouided Bouchamaoui, Ramtane Lamamra, Paolo Magri, Ayman Safadi, Antonio Tajani, Hossam Zaki

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02
Dec

11:00 – 12:00 CET

MED Panels

Inclusive Citizenship And Freedom of Religion Or Belief: Bridging the Two Agendas in the Spirit of Human Fraternity

with: Hayder Al-Khoei, Abdulwahab Al-Shehri, Fadi Daou, Noemi Di Segni, Mauro Garofalo, Nazila Ghanea, Fabio Petito

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02
Dec

11:00 – 11:30 CET

MED Dialogues

Special Dialogue with Sameh Shoukry

with: Dalia Ghanem, Pol Morillas, Sameh Shoukry

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02
Dec

12:00 – 13:00 CET

MED Panels

The Quest for Peace and Development in Israel-Palestine

with: Dalal Iriqat, Sven Koopmans, Gideon Levy, Ugo Tramballi

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02
Dec

12:00 – 12:45 CET

MED Dialogues

Special Dialogue with Prince Hassan Bin Talal of Jordan

with: Prince Hassan Bin Talal, Riccardo Chartroux, Maria Fantappiè

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02
Dec

12:00 – 13:00 CET

MED Panels

Multiple Shapes of a Chamaleonic Terrorism

with: Hisham A. Hellyer, Roy Olivier, Illka Salmi, William F. Wechsler, Mona Yacoubian

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02
Dec

12:45 – 13:45 CET

MED Panels

Towards a Broader Paradigm for Energy Security

with: Nawaf Saud Nasser Al-Sabah, Mohamed Arkab, Mohamed Bin Mubarak Bin Daina, Andrea Cabrini, Claudio Descalzi, Francesco La Camera

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Dec 02 13:00 pm – 16:00 pm CET

02
Dec

14:30 – 15:30 CET

MED Panels

Sahel – North Africa – Europe: the Vertical Pathway of Instability

with: Djime Adoum, Ali Aslan, Abdoul Salam Bello, Zuzana Brixiova Schwidrowski, Natalina Cea, Stefania Craxi, Emanuela Del Re, Hélène Le Gal, Tarek Megerisi, Thomas Volk

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02
Dec

14:30 – 15:30 CET

MED Panels

Going Green: Unlocking the Renewable Energy Potential

with: Leila Benali, Gilberto Dialuce, Giovanni Gorno Tempini, Samantha Gross, Alessandra Migliaccio, Osama Mobarez, Gilberto Pichetto Fratin, Konstantinos Skrekas

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02
Dec

14:30 – 15:00 CET

MED Dialogues

Special Dialogue with Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu

with: Monica Maggioni, Maha Yahya, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu

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02
Dec

15:30 – 16:30 CET

MED Panels

The Art of Peace in Age of War

with: Ouided Bouchamaoui, Loredana Teodorescu, Stephanie Williams, Joanna Wronecka, Ayşe Betül Çelik

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02
Dec

15:30 – 16:30 CET

MED Panels

Economic Recovery in Uncertain Times

with: Abla Abdel Latif, Mohsen Derregia, Fatou Haidara, Nasser Kamel, Giulio Tremonti

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02
Dec

16:00 – 17:00 CET

MED Panels

Reviving Multilateralism: the UN in Times of Crisis

with: Staffan De Mistura, Tanja Fajon, Rafael Mariano Grossi, Karim Mezran

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02
Dec

16:30 – 17:30 CET

MED Panels

Struggling with Disinformation

with: Alessandro Accorsi, Maria Cuffaro, Marc Owen Jones, Tamara Kharroub, Bayan Tal

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02
Dec

16:30 – 17:30 CET

MED Panels

Peoples, Rights and Development: the Recipe for Peace

with: Paige Alexander, Lea Baroudi, Alain Délétroz, Maria Fantappiè, Daniela Fatarella, Miro Modrusan, Bo Viktor Nylund, Francesco Rocca

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Dec 02 17:00 pm – 20:00 pm CET

02
Dec

17:00 – 18:00 CET

MED Panels

A new agenda for cooperative security

with: Leo Docherty, Irene Fellin, Kawa Hassan, Matthew Karnitschnig, Ian Lesser

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02
Dec

17:30 – 18:30 CET

MED Panels

The Mediterranean Needs YOUth

with: Dubai Abulhoul, Reem Al Haddadin, Edmondo Cirielli, Emmanuel Cohen-Hadria, Rachele De Angelis, Kerri-Ann Jones, Marwa Louati

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02
Dec

17:30 – 18:30 CET

MED Panels

Troubled waters: Maritime (In)Security in the MENA Region

with: Aurelio De Carolis, Nimrod Goren, Claudio Graziano, Margherita Stancati, Michaël Tanchum, Taha Özhan

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02
Dec

18:00 – 18:30 CET

MED Dialogues

Special Dialogue with Riad Malki

with: Senen Florensa, Riyad Malki, Vivian Yee

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02
Dec

18:30 – 19:30 CET

MED Panels

Yemen, Syria, Libya, Afghanistan: the Unsolved Crises

with: Dlawer Ala’aldeen, Anas El Gomati, Najla El Mangoush, Claudia Gazzini, Lina Khatib, Ahmed Awad Bin Mubarak, Geir O. Pedersen

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02
Dec

18:30 – 19:30 CET

MED Panels

From Sharm-el-Sheikh to Dubai: Time for Climate Action

with: Almotaz Abadi, Ranj Alaaldin, Karim Elgendy, Nadim Farajalla, Michael Haddad, Giampaolo Silvestri

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02
Dec

18:30 – 19:00 CET

MED Dialogues

Special Dialogue with Abdallah Bou Habib

with: Abdallah Bou Habib, Zaid Eyadat, Lucia Goracci

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Dec 03 9:00 am – 12:00 am CET

03
Dec

09:00 – 10:00 CET

MED Panels

North Africa: Resilience amid Crisis

with: Haizam Amirah-Fernández, Canan Atilgan, Emna Ben Arab, Intissar Fakir, Dalia Ghanem, Yael Lempert

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03
Dec

09:00 – 10:00 CET

MED Panels

Austerity and Discontent in the Mena Region

with: Ranj Alaaldin, Sara Bazoobandi, Hisham A. Hellyer, Tarek Masoud, Hamza Meddeb, Maha Yahya

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03
Dec

09:10 – 09:40 CET

MED Panels

Conversation with the Authors

with: Éléonore A. Bénit, Fadia Faqir, Zineb Mekouar

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03
Dec

09:30 – 10:30 CET

MED Panels

A wake-up call? New centrality of the EU-Neighbourhood

with: Nadia Bouaida, Clint Camilleri, Gordan Grlić-Radman, Margherita Movarelli

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03
Dec

10:00 – 11:00 CET

MED Panels

Is Hydrogen Our Future?

with: Gilles Badot, Rim Berahab, Nicola De Blasio, Zaina Hurani, Joseph McMonigle, Silvio Micali

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03
Dec

10:00 – 11:00 CET

MED Panels

A Thirsty Region: How to Tackle Water Scarcity?

with: Shaddad Attili, Paolo Conversi, Grammenos Mastrojeni, Enrico Molinaro, Jyotsna Puri, Miki Zaide

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03
Dec

10:30 – 11:30 CET

MED Panels

Advancing the Social Contract in the MENA

with: Joseph Bahout, Ishac Diwan, Karim El Aynaoui, Kristin Fabbe, Roberta Gatti, Steffen Hertog

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03
Dec

11:00 – 12:00 CET

MED Panels

Iran: What Lies Ahead?

with: Aniseh Bassiri Tabrizi, Maria Fantappiè, Ellie Geranmayeh, Robert Malley, Bruno Scholl

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03
Dec

11:30 – 12:30 CET

MED Panels

Spotlight on the Gulf: Is a new Security Architecture in the Making?

with: Ebtesam Al-Ketbi, Cinzia Bianco, Tarek Masoud, Margherita Stancati, Ali Vaez

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03
Dec

12:00 – 13:00 CET

MED Panels

Investing in the MENA Region

with: Lise Grande, Taghrid Nafeisi, Yacine El-Mahdi Oualid, Lapo Pistelli, Gelsomina Vigliotti

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03
Dec

12:00 – 13:00 CET

MED Panels

Re-shoring, Near-shoring or Friend-Shoring?

with: Andrea Cabrini, Marco Felisati, Marco Hannappel, Blanca Moreno-Dodson, Takei Shunshuke, Tarek Tawfik, Maria Tripodi

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Dec 03 13:00 pm – 16:00 pm CET

03
Dec

14:00 – 15:00 CET

MED Panels

Feeding the Future: Securing Regional Food Systems

with: Andrea Cabrini, Roberta Gatti, Antonio Pedro, Máximo Torero Cullen

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03
Dec

15:00 – 15:30 CET

MED Dialogues

Special Dialogue with Paolo Gentiloni

with: Abla Abdel Latif, Chiara Albanese, Paolo Gentiloni

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03
Dec

16:00 – 17:00 CET

MED Panels

Closing Ceremony

with: Giampiero Massolo, Giorgia Meloni, Antonio Tajani

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