The desire to see enhanced and structural cultural components of a future EU foreign policy for the European Union grows apace. Increasingly debated at conferences and a subject of research, the issue will not go away, despite the blow to the European project dealt by the rejection of an EU Constitution. How much political will is there in the EU member states to see such a policy in place? How would it enhance the EU's role in the world? Policymakers (national and European), representatives of national cultural institutes and others in the cultural sector will meet to discuss this vital topic at the Diversity makes the Difference conference in the Peace Palace of The Hague on 9 March 2007. Speakers include Ján Figel’ (Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Sport), David Green (President of EUNIC and Director General of the British Council), Wolfgang Petritsch (former High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Austria to the United Nations Office at Geneva) and Gijs de Vries (EU's anti-terrorism coordinator). The various panel discussions and the debate they generate should lead ultimately to a robust set of 'Hague Recommendations' which will set the agenda on this subject for the coming years. The organisers will cater for continuity. The discussion will be taken up at the German Presidency’s culture conference on 7-8 June 2007 in Berlin. Common projects will be developed with a view on, and an evaluation in the Year of Intercultural Dialogue 2008. Diversity makes the Difference is co-organised by the European Cultural Foundation (ECF), the Service Centre for International Cultural Activities / SICA, and the Goethe-Institut Amsterdam as the project leader of the network of foreign cultural institutes in Amsterdam (EUNIC). Media partner of the conference is Signandsight. The Kulturpolitische Gesellschaft will organise the follow up conference on 7-8 June 2007.