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Date: April 24, 2017

Venue: Hotel “Rus’”, 4 Hospitalna Street, Kyiv, Ukraine

Program

09:00 Registration of participants. Welcome Coffee.

10:00 Open of the round-table. Welcoming remarks.

Igor ZHOVKVA, Head of the Head Department for Foreign Policy and European Integration of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine (tbc)
Gabriele BAUMANN, Head of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Office in Ukraine
Branislav CIBIK, Head of Programs of the Research Center of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association

10.15 Panel I - EU Global Strategy: Ukraine and the Black Sea Region in the revised Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union.

•    EU Global Strategy – an attempt to make the EU Foreign and Security Policy stronger and more effective
•    Is the EU a global security provider, able to counter actual threats?
•    Cooperation of the EU with NATO and other partners
•    The Eastern Europe and the Black Sea Region in the EU Global Strategy
•    Regional, Russian and Turkish, challenges for the EU Foreign and Security Policy
•    How do the EU member states, including Germany, implement the EU Global Strategy in their policies?
•    Place and Role of Ukraine in the implementation process of the EU Global Strategy

Speakers:

Hanna HOPKO, Chairperson of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine
Hugues MINGARELLI, Head of the EU Delegation to Ukraine
Kestutis LANCINSKAS, Head of the EU Advisory Mission Ukraine
Samuel GODA, Senior researcher of the Research Center of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association
Oleksandr SUSHKO, Research Director at the Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation (tbc)

Moderator: Mykhailo GONCHAR , President of the Centre for Global Studies “Strategy XXI”

Discussion.

11.45    Coffee-brake.

12.15 Panel II - EU – Ukraine: prospects of cooperation in foreign an security policy.

•    The EU Global Strategy and Ukraine and other Eastern European countries
•    The Eastern Partnership as a multilateral dimension of the EU-Ukraine cooperation in the security sphere
•    Security segment of the Association Agreement between the EU and Ukraine
•    Integration of Ukraine into the EU Common Foreign and Security Policy
•    Institutional cooperation between Ukraine and the EU in the security sphere
•    Possible contribution of Ukraine to implementation of the EU Global Strategy
•    Prospects of the EU-Ukraine cooperation in the foreign and security dimension

Speakers:

Vsevolod CHENTSOV, Director-General for the European Union of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine 
Olaf WIENTZEK, Coordinator for European Policy in the Political Dialogue and Analysis team at the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in Berlin (tbc)
Monika MASARIKOVA, Researcher of the Research Center of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association
Hanna SHELEST, Head of the Board of the NGO “Promotion of Intercultural Cooperation”
Yulia TYSHCHENKO, Head of the Democratic Processes Support Program of UCIPR 

Moderator: Vitalii MARTYNIUK, Head of the International Programs of the Centre for Global Studies “Strategy XXI”

Discussion

13.45 Closing remarks. 

14.00 Completion of the round table. Lunch.

15.00 Presentation of the CBC01014 project results

Branislav CIBIK, Head of Programs of the Research Center of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association

16.00 Completion of the conference

Research Center of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association, Staromestská 6/D, 811 03 Bratislava, Slovak Republic