On September 25, 2025, the New Europe Center together with the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI) will hold the IV Ukraine-France Forum in Paris.

This year’s Forum will focus on these main issues:

• What Are the Current Military Strategies and Strategic Perspectives for Ukraine?
• Resilience and Recovery: Ukraine’s Fight Beyond the Battlefield
• Transatlantic perspectives: EU accession process and NATO aspirations

The broadcast will be carried out on the New Europe Center Facebook page in Ukrainian. The duration of the event is 14:30-19:45.

PROGRAM

14:45–15:00: Welcome Addresses by the Organizers

• Tatiana Kastouéva-Jean, Director, Russia/Eurasia Center, Ifri, France
• Leo Litra, Senior Research Fellow, New Europe Center, Ukraine

15:00–15:15: Keynote Speech

• Vadym Omelchenko, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to France

15:15–16:30: What Are the Current Military Strategies and Strategic Perspectives for Ukraine?

Moderator: Tatiana Kastouéva-Jean, Director, Russia/Eurasia Center, Ifri

Panelists:

• Brice Roquefeuil, Head of the Directorate for Continental Europe, French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs
• Rostyslav Ogryzko, Deputy State Secretary, Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine
• Alice Rufo, General Director of DGRIS, French Ministry of the Armed Forces
• Leo Litra, Senior Research Fellow, New Europe Center, Ukraine

16:30–17:00: Coffee break

17:00–18:15: Resilience and Recovery: Ukraine’s Fight Beyond the Battlefield

Moderator: Lesia Orobets, Head of the “Air Defence Shield for Ukraine” initiative, former Member of Parliament of Ukraine

Panelists:

• Claire Cheremetinski, Deputy Director General of the Treasury, France
• Oleksandr Sushko, Executive Director, International Renaissance Foundation, Ukraine
• François Benaroya, CEO of Europe-Mediterranean, BNP Paribas, France
• Oleksandra Betliy, Leading Research Fellow, Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting, Ukraine
• Alexandra Goujon, Lecturer, University of Burgundy, Researcher affiliated with CREDESPO and Associate at CERCEC

18:15–19:30: Transatlantic perspectives: EU accession process and NATO aspirations

Moderator: Dimitri Minic, Researcher, Russia/Eurasia Center, Ifri

Panelists:

• Vincent Guérend, Director for the European Union at the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs
• Alyona Getmanchuk, Head of the Mission of Ukraine to NATO
• Pierre Haroche, Lecturer in European and International Politics, Catholic University of Lille, France
• Yehor Cherniev, Member of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Deputy Chairman of the Committee on National Security, Defence and Intelligence of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Chairman of the Permanent Delegation of Ukraine at the NATO Parliamentary Assembly
• Olena Halushka, Member of the Board of the International Renaissance Foundation, Co-founder of the International Center for Ukrainian Victory (ICUV), Member of the Board of the Anti-corruption Action Center (AntAC), Ukraine

19:30–20:00: Discussion with ministers

Moderator: Thomas Gomart, Director, Ifri

• Taras Kachka, Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration, Ukraine
• Benjamin Haddad, Minister Delegate for Europe, French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs

The Forum is organized with the support of French ministry of European and Foreign Affairs. For this event, the New Europe Center is supported by the International Renaissance Foundation.