The New Europe Center kindly invites you to join the 2nd EU Accession Exchange Forum, which is the main discussion platform that brings together policy makers, experts, opinion leaders, media representatives, and officials from both EU candidate countries and EU member states. Its primary objective is to address the most pressing issues related to the accession process.
The event will be held on September 28 and will be streamlined online on the Facebook page and Youtube channel of the New Europe Center.
Working language: English.
Start: 10:15 am (UTC+2).
Final agenda of the event will be available closer to the date.
2nd EU Accession Exchange 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, Georgia, and the Western Balkan countries.
The discussion panels will be devoted to the following issues:
- the Russian war challenges for Ukraine’s EU integration,
- the reform of the EU for new members,
- reforms in the candidate countries.
Among the speakers:
Olha Stefanishyna, Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine; Ihor Zhovkva, Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine; Katarina Maternova, Ambassador of European Union to Ukraine; Bridget A. Brink, U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine; Stanislav Secrieru, National security adviser to the President of the Republic of Moldova; Pavlo Klimkin, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (2014-2019), Jovana Marovic, former Vice Minister and Deputy Minister of European Affairs of Montenegro; Iulian Groza, Executive director of the Institute for European Policies and Reforms (IPRE), Moldova; Vano Chkhikvadze, EU Integration Program Manager at Open Society Foundation Georgia (OSGF).
The EU Accession Exchange Forum is organized by the New Europe Center in partnership with the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister of European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine, the International Renaissance Foundation, the Institute for European Policies and Reforms, the Soros Foundation in Georgia and the Center for Liberal Modernity, Germany. The Accession Exchange Forum is taking place with EU support, within the EU-funded “European Renaissance of Ukraine” project implemented by the International Renaissance Foundation.
During the Forum, the newest issue of ‘Candidate Check-5’ will be presented. This publication was prepared by the New Europe Center under the USAID/ ENGAGE activity, which is funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and implemented by Pact.
