Obtaining the EU candidate status is a special moment for the New Europe Center, as well as for the whole Ukraine. Our team has been working for Ukraine’s integration into the EU for many years. We offer you to recollect with us the most memorable initiatives of the New Europe Center, which made Ukraine closer to this day!

Leo Litra took part in the public discussion “Granting EU candidate status to Ukraine: caveats and prospects”.

Kateryna Zarembo, Associate Fellow at the New Europe Center, took part in the event, organized by the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.

More than 200 NGOs from all over Ukraine appealed to EU leaders to grant Ukraine the EU candidate status at the European Council on June, 23-24

(UA) Маріанна Фахурдінова взяла участь у заході Громадянської мережі ОПОРА

Ukrainian CSOs call EU member states to grant Ukraine EU candidate status promptly, as recognition of joint reform achievements

Alyona Getmanchuk, director of the New Europe Center, and Leo Litra, Senior Research Fellow at NEC, visited Paris, The Hague and Berlin on advocacy visits.

A new effort to reach French audience amid the war in Ukraine: in partnership with IFRI the New Europe Center organized today a briefing by Igor Zhovkva, Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, for more than 200 opinion leaders from France. 

Alyona Getmanchuk, director of the New Europe Center, spoke at the Atlantic Council’s discussion “Will Russian war crimes in Ukraine continue?” Other speakers included Oleksandr Danyliuk, former Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, Lieutenant General Keith Dayton, and Vladimir Milov, a Russian opposition politician. The discussion was moderated by Ambassador John Herbst, Senior Director of the Eurasia Center, Atlantic Council. 

What is the role of Japan and China in Russia’s war against Ukraine? Today, in the midst of the war, the New Europe Center presented two analytical commentaries on these topics. Ukrainian, Japanese and European experts took part in a closed friendly online discussion.