Europe and the New European External Action Service: What about Belarus?

Avec Pavol Demes, Transatlantic Fellow at The German Marshall Fund of the United States

Introduction : François Lafond, Directeur, Bureau de Paris, The German Marshall Fund of the United States
Discutant : Anne-Marie Le Gloannec, Sciences Po-CERI.

 

Pavol Demes served from 2000 to 2010 as director of the German Marshall Fund’s Bratislava office, where he oversaw GMF’s activities in Central and Eastern Europe. He now works in Bratislava as a Transatlantic Fellow. Before joining GMF, Mr. Demes was executive director of the Slovak Academic Information Agency-Service Center for the Third Sector, a Slovak nongovernmental organization committed to enhancing civil society. Previously, Mr. Demes led a distinguished political and civic reform career serving his country as foreign policy advisor to the president of the Slovak Republic (1993-1997), minister of international relations (1991-1992), and director of the Department of Foreign Relations in the Ministry of Education (1990-1991). In 1999 he was awarded a six-month public policy research fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington D.C. He received the EU-US Democracy and Civil Society Award (in 1998), the USAID Democracy and Governance Award (1999), Royal Dutch decoration Knight of the Order of Orange Nassau (2005), Yugoslav Star of First Class (2005).