The New Europe Center kindly invites you to join online the 5th EU Accession Exchange Forum which is a key expert platform for  candidate countries for membership of the EU. Its task is to exchange lessons learned in the process of accession talks and develop recommendations on how to make the EU enlargement process more effective.

The event will be held on November 4 and will be streamlined online on the Facebook page and Youtube channel of the New Europe Center.

Working language: English.

Start: 9:00 am (UTC+3).

The Forum is an international gathering of practitioners and experts on the issues related to the European integration of the candidate countries. It aims to provide a platform and encourage cross-country and multi-stakeholder networking to take stock of the accession process, good practices, and lessons learned. It is also meant to discuss new ideas and explore the opportunities in the relations between the European Union and Ukraine, Moldova and the Western Balkan countries.

The discussion panels will be devoted to the following issues:

• how make a new impulse for EU enlargement;
• how the accession of new members could shape EU policies;
• what the costs of enlargement are and what the cost of non-enlargement would be for Europe’s security;
• what Ukrainian and EU citizens should know about the mutual benefits of enlargement and how to address common misperceptions.

Among the speakers:

Vsevolod Chentsov, Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine, Katarina Mathernova, Ambassador of the European Union in Ukraine, Ihor Zhovkva, Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine (TBC), Oleksandr Ilkov, Director General of the Government Office for Coordination on European and Euro-Atlantic Integration, Ukraine, Adrian Băluțel, Chairman of the European Integration Committee in the Moldovan parliament.

The EU Accession Exchange Forum is organized by the New Europe Center in partnership with the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine, the International Renaissance Foundation, and the Institute for European Policies and Reforms (Republic of Moldova), with Ukrinform and European Pravda serving as media partners. The EU Accession Exchange Forum is taking place with EU support, within the EU-funded “Whole-of-Society Accession” project implemented by the International Renaissance Foundation.