"A project for Europe": this is the underlying subject that will be dealt with by the second Summer University of Democracy, organised by the Council of Europe from 2nd to 6th July in Strasbourg. The event is expected to receive 600 participants from 15 states that, in plenary meetings and workgroups, will deal with topical political and legal issues and will discuss at a round table the process of continental integration. The course will be opened by a report by the president on duty of the CoE, the Serbian Minister Boris Tadic; other reports will be submitted by Terry Davis, secretary general of the CoE, Thomas Hammarberg, commissioner for human rights, George Soros, president of the Open Society Foundation, and Ivan Vejvoda, director of the Balkan Trust for Democracy. Guests will include Belarus’ opposition leader, Alexandre Milinkevitch. Jean-Dominique Giuliani, president of the Schuman foundation, will take part in the roundtable about the 50th anniversary of the Treaties of Rome. The experience of the Summer University at the Palais de l’Europe is heir to the School of Political Studies set up in Moscow in 1992 "to train explains a release from the CoE the new generation of political, economic, social and cultural decision-makers" in the former Communist countries. Such schools are currently in place in fifteen countries in East Europe.
