The New Europe Center held the Fourth Germany Breakfst Debate in Kyiv “Ukrainian-German cooperation: the view from Bundestag and Verkhovna Rada”, organized in partnership with the Institute of the European Politics (Berlin)under the patronage of the German Ambassador Anka Feldhusen. Find more about the project “German Ukrainian Researchers Network” (GURN) here.
The participants of the event discussed the strengthening of the EU sanctions against Russia on Nord Stream-2 due to the poisoning of Oleksiy Navalny, the reaction of German and Ukrainian political circles to Ukraine’s withdrawal of its patronage over the German-Ukrainian Commission of Historians, and the prospects of cooperation between the Verkhovna Rada and the Bundestag.
The invited speakers of the event:
- Anka Feldhusen, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Germany to Ukraine
- Omid Nouripour, Chairperson of the German-Ukrainian Parliamentary Friendship Group, Bundestag (Berlin)
- Halyna Yanchenko, Co-Chair of the Group for Interparliamentary Relations with the Federal Republic of Germany, Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (Kyiv)
Directors Alyona Getmanchuk and Katrin Böttger represented the New Europe Center and the Institute for European Politics.
Find more pictures from the event here.
The Germany Breakfast Debates is a unique format, taking place in Kyiv on the regular basis. It is the continuation of the series of Ukraine Breakfast Debates, which has been held by the Institute for European Politics in Berlin since 2017. The Germany Breakfast Debates initiative aims to discuss the views of German experts and decision-makers on events in Ukraine and Germany, as well as to establish a professional dialogue between experts from both states.
This event is part of the new project “German Ukrainian Researchers Network” (GURN). GURN aims at establishing a German-Ukrainian expert network, strengthening expertise in policy analysis and promoting joint cooperation projects. GURN is conducted in close cooperation with the Institut für Europäische Politik (IEP, Berlin) Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation (DIF, Kyiv), the think tank development and research initiative think twice UA (Kyiv) and is kindly supported by the Federal Foreign Office.
