Fifth Germany Breakfast Debate

The New Europe Center held the Fifth Germany Breakfst Debate in Kyiv “One year after the Normandy summit in Paris. What to expect next? German vision”, 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.

As a result of the discussion, participants had the opportunity to assess the efforts of both sides during the Normandy Summit in Paris to resolve the conflict, determine how successful the dialogue between Ukraine and Germany is on resolving the conflict, and consider how elections in Germany can affect the conflict resolution.

Participants of the event:

Маtthias Lüttenberg, the Head of the Department for Central, Eastern, Southern Europe of the German Chancellor’s Office (Berlin, online)
Olexii Reznikov, Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories (Kyiv, online)
Bertram Moltke, Envoy, Embassy of Germany in Kyiv (Kyiv, online)

Alyona Getmanchuk, Director, and Sergiy Solodkyy, First Deputy Director, represented the New Europe Center.

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.