Ukraine-EU: New approaches to confront old challenges

 

                    

 

6th Europe-Ukraine Forum 2013

Budapest 12 - 14th May 2013 

Ukraine-EU: New approaches to confront old challenges 

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Full program

 

Sunday, 12th of May

PLENARY SESSION:

Ukraine – EU: New approaches to old challenges

 PRESENTATION OF THE REPORT:

Ukraine 2012. Report on Transformation

 

Monday, 13th of May

DISCUSSION PANELS: POLITCAL BLOCK

  • Ukraine’s political landscape – is a consensus possible?
  • EU-Ukraine Association Agreement and free trade area – A window of opportunity or just a game of deception?
  • Ukrainian foreign policy directions: is a multi-vector approach a possible scenario?
  • The rule of law – prospects for the progress of democracy
  • The media in Ukraine: between business and politics
  • The European Neighborhood Policy – Eastern Dimension: Progress with Reforms

 

11:00 - 12:30 PANEL DISCUSSION Ukraine’s political landscape – is a consensus possible?
Venue: Plenary room

Mo d e r a t o r :
Réka Szemerkényi, Chief Energy and Security Advisor to the Prime Minister of Hungary


S p e a k e r s :
Oleksandr Doniy, Member of Parliament, Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine
Csilla Fedinec, Research Fellow, Institute for Minority Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
Pawe³ Kowal, MEP, Chairman of the EU Delegation for relations with Ukraine, Poland
Jose Ignacio Sanchez Amor, Member of the European Affairs Committee, Congress of Deputies;
Vice President of the Spanish Parliamentary Assembly of OSCE , Spain
Calin Ungur, UE-Ukraine relations responsible, European External Action Service (EEAS)
Comment a t o r s :
Konstantin Bondarenko, CEO, Institute of Ukrainian Politics, Ukraine
Thomas Schreiber, Professor, École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan, France

 

Tuesday, 14th of May 

 DISCUSSION PANELS: ECONOMIC BLOCK

 

The EU-Ukraien Forum will bring together over 300 participants from Ukraine, the EU, its other neighbouring countries and the US, including government officials, businesspeople, local authorities, foreign policy experts ans journalists

 

The Institute for Minority Studies is represented by 

 

Fedinec Csilla


PhD, Historian, Research Fellow, Institute for Minority Studies of the Centre for Social Sciences of the HAS, recipient of János Bolyai Research Fellowship of the HAS. Research areas: history of Transcarpathia, political history of Ukraine; minorities in East-Central Europe.