In strategic partnership with the King Baudouin Foundation and the Compagnia di San Paolo
Wednesday 21 September 2011
Ukraine 20 years on: challenges for the future European Parliament, PaulHenri Spaak Building, 5B 001, Rue Wiertz, 1047 Brussels
PROGRAMME 14.00
Registration
14.30
Introduction Hans Martens, Chief Executive, European Policy Centre Guy Verhofstadt, President of the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe in the European Parliament
14.40
Panel I: Ukraine 20 years on: achievements and challenges Hans Martens, Chief Executive, European Policy Centre (Moderator) Andriy Klyuyev, First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine; Minister of Economic Development and Trade Štefan Füle, Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Member of the Parliament of Ukraine, Leader of the Front for Change Political Party Johannes Cornelis van Baalen, President of Liberal International; Member of the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe; Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, European Parliament Petro Poroshenko, President of the Council of the National Bank of Ukraine Andriy Fialko, Foreign Policy Adviser to the President of Ukraine
15.30
Questions and discussion
16.00
Panel II: The EUUkraine Deep Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement: implications, challenges, and benefits Georgi Gotev, Senior Editor, EurActiv.com (Moderator) Valerii Pyatnytskyi, Deputy Minister for Economic Development and Trade, Chief Ukrainian Negotiator for UkraineEU DCFTA Rupert Schlegelmilch, Director of the Directorate E Public Procurement and Intellectual Property, Bilateral Trade Relations, DG Trade, Chief EU negotiator for UkraineEU DCFTA Roman Shpek, Senior Adviser of AlfaBank (Ukraine), Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Head of Ukrainian Mission to the European Union (20002008) Tomas Fiala, President of the European Business Association, Managing Director of Dragon Capital Limited Jock MendozaWilson, Director of International and Investor Relations of SCM
16.40 17.00
Questions and discussion Panel III: EUUkraine Energy Partnership: Gas Transit System modernisation and beyond Siiri Oviir, Member of the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe; First ViceChair of the Delegation to the EUUkraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (Moderator)
This event is held under the auspices of the EPC’s Europe in the World programme, which is run in partnership with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. It has been organised in cooperation with the Mission of Ukraine to the EU, System Capital Management, DTEK, Political Group of Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) in the European Parliament, EurActiv.com, and Ukrainian News Agency “InterfaxUkraine”
Mykyta Konstantinov, Director of the Department for Strategic Policy, Investments and Nuclear Energy, Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry of Ukraine Jeffery Piper, Coordinator, International Relations and Enlargement, DG Energy, European Commission Andrey Favorov, Managing Director at DTEK Power Trade Patrick Van Daele, SHELL Ukraine Director General Pierre Noël, Research Associate and Director of Energy Policy Forum, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge 17.40
Questions and discussion
18.00
Closing remarks Kostiantyn Yelisieiev, Head of the Mission of Ukraine to the EU AdinaIoana Valean, VicePresident of the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe; Member of the Delegation to the EUUkraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee, European Parliament
18.10
Cocktail reception
19.00
End of Meeting
This event is held under the auspices of the EPC’s Europe in the World programme, which is run in partnership with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. It has been organised in cooperation with the Mission of Ukraine to the EU, System Capital Management, DTEK, Political Group of Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) in the European Parliament, EurActiv.com, and Ukrainian News Agency “InterfaxUkraine”