What are the priorities in Ukraine’s foreign policy and what challenges does it face on the international arena? On July, 17 NEC’s invited partners discussed these issues on the “NEC Club” – traditional closed-door event of our center. Dmytro Kuleba, Foreign Minister of Ukraine, became the special guest of the event.

On the invitation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, this-year-event was held in the MFA yard, where NEC’s partners, Ukrainian experts on the foreign and security policy issues could discuss with the minister in the informal atmosphere topical issues in Ukraine’s foreign policy.

New Europe Center Club is a regular format, allowing to discuss in the informal atmosphere current issues of foreign and security policy of Ukraine, as well as further development of the organization with our key partners in the informal atmosphere. Find more information about the past year meeting here.

The participants of the NEC Club 2020:

• Dmytro Kuleba, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
• Alyona Getmanchuk, Director of the New Europe Center
• Sergiy Solodkyy, First deputy director of the New Europe Center
• Olexandr Sushko, Executive Director of the International Renaissance Foundation
• Olexiy Haran, Head of Research of the Ilko Kucheriv «Democratic Initiatives» foundation
• Hennadiy Maksak, Executive Director of the Foreign Policy Council “Ukrainian Prism”
• Oleksiy Melnyk, Co-Director of the Foreign Relations and International Security Programmes in the “Razumkov centre”
• Yulia Tyshchenko, Head of the Democratic Processes Support Program UCIPR
• Volodymyr Fesenko, Head of the Center for policy analysis “Penta”
• Maksym Yakovlev, Director of the School for policy analysis NaUKMA

Mission of the New Europe Center is to develop policy papers and conduct project activities in order to promote European standards and practices in Ukraine, as well as to increase support of Ukraine’s European and Euro-Atlantic prospects among opinion leaders and officials of the EU and the NATO.

NEC aims to pursue three strategic priorities:

• Enhancing the effectiveness of Ukraine’s foreign and security policy
• Communicating European and Euro-Atlantic choice in Ukraine
• Communicating Ukraine in the EU and the US

Find more information about the results of our work during the last year here.

Find more information about the past year meeting here.

The event was organized by the New Europe Center as part of its project implemented under the USAID/ENGAGE activity, which is funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and implemented by Pact. The contents of this event are the sole responsibility of Pact and its implementing partners and do not necessary reflect the views of USAID or the United States Government.