On October 9, 2026, the New Europe Center together with the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI) will hold the V Ukraine-France Forum in Paris.
This year’s Forum will focus on these main issues:
- Towards a Diplomatic Settlement? Actors, Formats and Conditions for a Lasting Peace
- Ukraine’s Euro-Atlantic Integration: EU Accession and Relations with NATO
- Post-War Ukraine: Societal and Elite Transformations and Recovery Prospects
The broadcast will be carried out on the New Europe Center Facebook page in Ukrainian. The duration of the event is 14:15-19:30 (Kyiv time).
PROGRAM
14:15–14:30. Welcome Addresses by the Organizers
Tatiana Kastouéva-Jean, Director, Russia/Eurasia Center, Ifri, France
Leo Litra, Senior Research Fellow, New Europe Center, Ukraine
14:30–14:40. Opening remarks
Vadym Omelchenko, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the French Republic
14:40–16:00. Towards a Diplomatic Settlement? Actors, Formats and Conditions for a Lasting Peace
Chair: Dimitri Minic, Research Fellow, Scientific Director of the Russia, Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia Observatory, Russia/Eurasia Center, Ifri
Speakers:
- Rostyslav Ohryzko, Deputy State Secretary, Secretariat of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine
- Nadiia Koval, Policy Fellow, European Policy Institute in Kyiv (EPIK)
- Arnaud Guillois, Director for Continental Europe, Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs
- Stéphane Audrand, Associate Research Fellow, Security Studies Center, Ifri
- Arnaud Valli, Head of Public Affairs, Comand AI
16:00–16:30. Coffee break
16:30–17:45. Ukraine’s Euro-Atlantic Integration: EU Accession and Relations with NATO
Chair: Olena Halushka, Member of Board, International Renaissance Foundation; Member of Board, Anti-Corruption Action Center, Ukraine
Speakers:
- Alyona Getmanchuk, Head of the Mission of Ukraine to NATO
- Vadym Halaychuk, First Deputy Chairperson of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Ukraine’s Integration into the European Union
- Vincent Guérend, Director for the European Union, Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs
- François Benaroya, CEO of Europe-Mediterranean, BNP Paribas
- Hugues Mingarelli, Honorary Deputy General Director at European Commission
17:45–19:00. Post-War Ukraine: Societal and Elite Transformations and Recovery Prospects
Chair: Anna Colin Lebedev, Assistant Professor at Paris Nanterre University and Scientific Director of the Observatory of Contemporary Ukraine
Speakers:
- Oleksandr Sushko, Executive Director, International Renaissance Foundation
- Maryna Kumeda, Writer, Journalist, and Member of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (online)
- Anastasia Fomitchova, research associate at the Center for European Studies at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (NaUKMA), and research director at the think tank “EU LEAP” (online)
- Muriel Lacoue-Labarthe, France’s Special Envoy for Ukraine’s Recovery and Reconstruction
- Céline Bardet, International Lawyer, Specialist in War Crimes
Conversation with Ministers
Chair: Tatiana Kastouéva-Jean, Director, Russia/Eurasia Center, Ifri, and Leo Litra, Senior Researcher, New Europe Center
Vsevolod Chentsov, Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration, Ukraine (online)
Benjamin Haddad, Minister Delegate to the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, in charge of European Affairs, France
The Forum is organized with the support of the French Ministry of European and Foreign Affairs. For this event, the New Europe Center is supported by the International Renaissance Foundation.
