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Programme 

Monday, 26th April 2010 

Presentation: Ukraine 2009. Report on Transformation 17.00 – 18.30 

Reception (venue: Ukrainskyy Dim) 19.00 

Tuesday, 27th April 2010 

Opening Remarks 9.30 – 9.50 

Plenary Session: The European Union and Post-Election 

Ukraine: Future of the Mutual Relations 

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9.50 – 11.30 

Coffee Break 11.30 – 12.00 

Economy in the Time of Crisis – Opportunity 

for Modernization? 

12.00 – 13.30 

Ukraine and Energy Security in the CEE Region 12.00 – 13.30 

Lunch 13.30 – 14.30 

Foreign Investments in Ukraine: Opportunities and Barriers 14.30 – 16.00 

Future of the Association Agreement: Plans and Reality 14.30 – 16.00 


Reforms and Transformation. Challenges for Ukraine 16.20 – 18.00

Russia-Ukraine Relations: Achievements, Controversies, 

and Perspectives 

Wednesday, 28th April 2010 


16.20 – 18.00 

Summary of the Day 18.00 – 18.30 

Reception (venue: Ukrainskyy Dim) 18.30 

Plenary session: Prospects for Economic Cooperation 

in the CEE Region after the Crisis – New Dimensions 

9.30 – 11.00 


Future of the Regional Cooperation in CEE Region 

and Impact of the Eastern Partnership 

11.15 – 12.45 

Civil Society as a Building Block for Democracy 11.15 – 12.45 


Problems of Regional Security – Is Common Ground 

Possible? 

13.00 – 14.50 

Closing Remarks 14.50 – 15.00 

Lunch 15.00 – 16.00 

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Monday, 26th April 2010 

17.00 – 18.30 


CENTRAL EXHIBITION HALL 

Presentation: Ukraine 2009. Report on Transformation 

– Global economic crisis and Ukrainian presidential election campaign – impact 

on the domestic situation in Ukraine, 

– Key economic growth indicators – analysis, 

– Recap of Ukrainian reforms in 2009, 

– Ukraine’s domestic and foreign policy achievements in 2009, 

– Key scenarios for development of Ukraine in 2010. 

Moderator: 

Dietmar Stűdemann – Ambassador ret., Germany 

Speakers: 

Iulian Chifu – Director, Conflict Prevention and Early Warning Center, Romania 

Pawel Lisicki – Editor-in-Chief, Rzeczpospolita newspaper, Poland 

Friedbert Pflűger – Professor for International Relations at the Department of War 

Studies, King’s College London, Germany 

Oleksandr Sushko – Author of the Report, Research Director, Institute of Euro-Atlantic 

Cooperation, Ukraine 

19.00 – Reception (venue: Ukrainskyy Dim)

Tuesday, 27th April 2010 

9.30 – 9.50 

9.50 – 11.30 

Opening Remarks 


Plenary Session. The European Union and Post-Election 

Ukraine: Future of the Relations 

– Ukrainian foreign policy after the presidential election – what are possible 

scenarios for the Ukraine-EU relations in the nearest future? 

– What are the prospects of Ukraine’s EU Accession and the Free Trade Agreement 

negotiations? 

– What will dominate the Ukraine-EU dialogue? 

Moderator: 

Savik Shuster – TV Presenter, CJSC Television and radio broadcasting company „Ukrainе” 

Speakers: 

Mykola Azarov – Prime Minister of Ukraine 

Angel Lossada Torres-Quevedo – Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Spain 

Teodor Melescanu – Vice President of the Senate, Romania 

Victor Osipov – Deputy Prime Minister, Republic of Moldova 

11.30 – 12.00 – Coffee Break 

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Zygmunt Berdychowski – Chairman of the Programme Council of the Economic Forum, 

Poland 

Eduard Prutnik – Chairman of the Board, United World Foundation, Ukraine 



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12.00 – 13.30 

– What are the consequences of the economic crisis for Europe and Ukraine? 

– Are there any positive effects of the crisis in terms of the economic and political 

development? 

– What will be the role of the supervision of the financial institutions? 

– Did the European Union and Ukraine take an advantage of the crisis? 

– What was the role of international financial institutions during the crisis in Ukraine? 

Moderator: 

Anna Derevyanko – Executive Director, European Business Association, Ukraine 

Speakers: 

Heinrich Höfer – Vice-President and Executive Director, BDI – Federation of German 

Industries, Germany 

Viktor Pynzenyk – Former Minister of Finances, Chairman, The Ukrainian Reform 

Support Foundation, Ukraine 

Aurel Vainer – Deputy Chairman of the Committee for Economic Policy, Reform and 

Privatization, Chamber of Deputies, Romania 

Georges Massoud – Partner, McKinsey & Company, Ukraine 

Andrey Nechaev – President, Russian Finance Corporation, Russia 

Participation in discussion: 

Maxim Bobrov – Journalist, Channel 1 TV, Russia 


GRAND EXHIBITION HALL 

Economy in the Time of Crisis – Opportunity for 

Modernization?

12.00 – 13.30 

Ukraine and Energy Security in the CEE Region 


– Ukraine’s accession to the Energy Community Treaty: implications for all parties, 

– Rehabilitation of Ukraine’s gas transportation system: likely scenarios and possibilities, 

– What do the geological surveys suggest about the potential reserves of Ukraine, 

how can they change the relations between EU-Russia? 

– A case for the Ukrainian transit corridor vs other gas delivery routes amidst changing 

institutional energy legislation and taking into account the prevailing 

economic-financial climate, 

– Energy efficiency as a basis for energy security of CIS. 

Moderator: 

Friedbert Pflűger – Professor for International Relations at the Department of War 

Studies, King’s College London, Germany 

Special guest: 

Yuriy Boyko – Minister of Fuel and Energy, Ukraine 

Speakers: 

Vaclav Bartuska – Ambassador-at-Large for Energy Security, Czech Republic 

Jean-Marie Devos – Secretary General, Eurogas, Belgium 

Michal Tomasz Kaminski – Chairman, European Conservatives and Reformists Group, 

European Parliament, Poland 

Viacheslav Kniazhnytskyi – Ambassador-at-Large for Energy Security, Ukraine 

Andre Mernier – Secretary General, Energy Charter Secretariat, Belgium 

Nikolai Shvec – General Director, IDGC Holding, Russia 

Commentators: 

Tore Emanuelsson – Head of the EIB Representation Office in Ukraine, European 

Investment Bank, Luxembourg 

Andrey Konoplyanik – Consultant to the Board, Gazprombank; Professor Russian State 

Oil & Gas University, Russia 


Natallia Hryb – Commentator, Kommersant, Russia 

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13.30 – 14.30 – Lunch 


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14.30 – 16.00 

– Role of the stock market for the improvement of Ukrainian investment climate 

– What are the worst barriers for the investment climate in Ukraine – bureaucracy, 

nontransparent privatization, corruption, often changing rules and regulations? 

– How to improve the energy effectiveness of Ukraine? 

– Would the privatization of Naftogaz improve the security of Ukraine? 

– What are investment perspectives for the Ukrainian regions? 

– Will Euro 2012 become a good occasion for a development of the Ukrainian 

infrastructure? What is the investment potential of the running projects? 

Moderator: 

Jorge Zukoski – President, American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine 

Speakers: 

Pascal Le Mière – Director for Central Europe & CIS, Veolia Environnement, France 

Igor Prasolov – Member of Parliament, Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine 

Marcus Stober – Partner, SCP Company, Sweden 

Enyuan Wu – Director, Institute of Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies, China 

14.30 – 16.00 



Foreign Investments in Ukraine: Opportunities 

and Barriers 


Future of the Association Agreement: Plans and Reality 

– The role and aim of the Agreement. Calculation of profits and threats, 

– What will be the impact of the Agreement on the political and economic development 

of Ukraine? 

– The state of negotiations and problems pertaining to the Association Agreement, 

– The Free Trade Agreement between the EU and Ukraine versus European business 

competitiveness, 

– The Free Trade Agreement and entrepreneurs' expectations. Will the Free Trade Zone 

become another disappointment for Ukrainian entrepreneurs after WTO accession? 

Moderator: 

Oleksandr Chalyi – Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ukraine 

Speakers: 

Viorel Hrebenciuc – Chairman of the Committee for European Affairs, Chamber of 

Deputies, Romania 

Leonid Kozhara – Member of Parliament, Deputy Chairman of the International 

Relations Committee, Foreign Policy Advisor to President Viktor Yanukovych 

Tomasz Lenz – Member, Sejm of the Republic of Poland, Poland 

Rainder Steenblock – Minister a. D., EISA – European Integration Strategy Association, Germany 

Alexandr Vondra – Senator, Czech Republic 


Ruslan Shafiev – Deputy Director, All Russian Market Research Institute, Russia

16.20 – 18.00 


16.00 – 16.20 – Coffee Break 

Reforms and Transformation. Challenges for Ukraine 

– The balance of reforms in Ukraine after its independence; economic, institutional, 

territorial reforms, 

– Barriers on the way to the implementation of the EU standards in Ukraine. Is it 

worthwhile adopting all the EU directives with no membership guarantees? 

– Social dimension of reforms – do the poorest have to bear the cost? 

– What factors are required to follow through on reforms and to speed up the process? 

Moderator: 

Jock Mendoza-Wilson – Director of International and Investor Relations, System Capital 

Management, Ukraine 

Speakers: 

Iryna Akimova – Deputy Head, Secretariat of the President of Ukraine 

Tomas Fiala – Managing Director, Dragon Capital, Ukraine 

Anatoliy Kinakh – President, Ukrainian League of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, 

Ukraine 

Petro Poroshenko – Chairman, Council of the National Bank of Ukraine 

Hanne Severinsen – Former Danish MP and PACE Rappourteur for Ukraine, Denmark 

Commentator: 

Alfred Vanags – Director, Baltic International Centre for Economic Policy Studies 

(BICEPS), Latvia 


Jean-Pierre Page – Scientific Correspondent, Center for International Studies and 

Research (CERI), France 

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16.20 – 18.00 

– Ukraine’s foreign policy after presidential election – possible scenarios 

of Ukrainian-Russian relations, 

– Room for compromise between Ukraine and Russia, 

– Security of Ukraine – with whom or against whom? 

– The new generation war in Ukraine – Russia relations: trade wars, information warfare 

– What are the prerequisites for improving relations between Moscow and Kyiv? 

Moderator: 

Michael Haltzel – Senior Fellow, Center for Transatlantic Relations at SAIS, John Hopkins 

University, USA 

Speakers: 

Valeriy Chalyi – Former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ukraine 

Anatoly Kozeradsky – Member of Parliament, State Duma, Russia 

James Sherr – Head, Russia & Eurasia Programme, Chatham House, United Kingdom 

Vladimir Socor – Expert, Jamestown Foundation, USA 

Hong Zhang – Academic Secretary, Institute of Russian, East European and Central Asian 

Studies, China 

Commentator: 

Victor Shenderovich – Journalist, Radio „Echo of Moscow”, Russia 


Francois Roche – Editor-in-Chief, „Foreign Policy”, French Edition, France 

Yury Shevtsov – Director, Centre for the Problems of European Integration, Belarus 


Russia-Ukraine Relations: Achievements, 

Controversies, and Perspectives 


18.00 – Summary of the Day 

18.30 – Reception (venue: Ukrainskyy Dim)

Wednesday, 28th April 2010 

9.30 – 11.00 


Viktor Yanukovych – President of Ukraine 


Plenary session: Prospects for Economic Cooperation 

in the CEE Region after the Crisis – New Dimensions 

– What is the balance of gains and losses of the economic cooperation in CEE after 

the crisis? 

– What will be the impact of the changes in the global economy on the cooperation 

in CEE region? 

– What kind of the advantages will the new model of international economy bring 

to the cooperation in CEE? 

– How will the cross-border cooperation and the development of the regions look like 

after the crisis? 

Moderator: 

Oleksiy Plotnikov – Head of Subcommittee on International Economic Policy, Verkhovna 

Rada of Ukraine 

Speakers: 

Peter Balazs – Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hungary 

Bohdan Danylyshyn – Former Minister of Economy, Head of the Council on Studies of 

Productive Forces, Academy of Science, Ukraine 

Eugeny Fedorov – Chairman of Economic Policy and Entrepreneurship Committee, State 

Duma, Russia 

Andrzej Halicki – Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Parliament of the 

Republic of Poland 

Valeriy Piatnytskyi – Deputy Minister of Economy, Ukraine 

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11.00 – 11.15 – Coffee Break 


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11.15 – 12.45 

– What are the mutual interests for the countries in the region? 

– The development of international organizations in the region and the process 

of region’s democratization (CIS, The Black Sea Economic Cooperation, GUAM), 

– The role of Central and Northern Europe in supporting cooperation between 

the countries of Eastern Europe, 

– The rationale for cooperation: advantages of partnership or apprehension of mutual threats? 

Moderator: 

Marat Terterov – Director, European Geopolitical Forum, Belgium 


Kostyantyn Gryshchenko – Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine 

Speakers: 

Giorgi Baramidze – Deputy Prime Minister, State Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic 

Integration, Georgia 

Bogdan Mazuru – Secretary of State for European Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 

Romania 

Krister Hammarbergh – Member of Committee on European Affairs, Parliament of Sweden 

Lapo Pistelli – Member of the Committee of Foreign and European Union Affairs, 

Chamber of Deputies, Italy 

Andrei Popov – Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration of the 

Republic of Moldova 

Borys Tarasyuk – Chairman of the Committee on European Integration, Verkhovna Rada 

of Ukraine 

Commentators: 

Gerd Harms – State Secretary (ret.), Consultant, ENERTRAG AG, Germany 

Thierry Bechet – Adviser, European Commission, France 


Aleksander Gorshkov – Deputy Governor of the Bryansk Region, Russia 

Kari Liuhto – Director, Professor, Pan-European Institute, Finland 

Alfred Reisch – Professor, Izmir University of Economics, Hungary 



Future of the Regional Cooperation in CEE Region 

and Impact of the Eastern Partnership

11.15 – 12.45 

Civil Society as a Building Block for Democracy 


– What is the conditionality between the civil society and democratic state? 

– What are the main directions of the development of the civil society? 

– What are the biggest constraints and dangers for the civil society in young 

democracies? 

– How to evaluate Ukrainian democracy? 

Moderator: 

Eugeny Kiselev – TV Presenter, Inter TV Channel, Ukraine 

Speakers: 

Joao Carlos Espada – Associate Professor, Director, Institute for Political Studies, 

Catholic University of Portugal 

Anatoliy Hrytsenko – Chairman of the Committee on National Security and Defence, 

Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine 

Markus Meckel – former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Germany 

Asim Mollazade – Chairman of the Party of Democratic Reforms, Parliament of the 

Republic of Azerbaijan 


Alexander Fomenko – Deputy Chief, Russian Training Centre for Electoral Practicies, 

Russia 

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12.45 – 13.00 – Coffee Break 


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13.00 – 14.50 

– Is NATO enlargement necessary? 

– Ukraine’s participation in NATO missions and its prospects for membership, 

– Ukraine in the context of Russia’s military interventions in the region, 

– impact of Afghanistan and Iraq missions on European security system 

Moderator: 

Klaus Wittmann – Brigadier General (ret.), Former Director, Academic Planning and 

Policy, Germany 


Giorgi Baramidze – Deputy Prime Minister, State Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic 

Integration, Georgia 

Speakers: 

Ronald D. Asmus – Executive Director, Transatlantic Center and Strategic Planning, 

German Marshall Fund of the United States, USA 

Iulian Fota – National Security Advisor to the President, Romania 

Yevhen Marchuk – Director, Institute for Security Issues, Ukraine 

Sergey Maskevich – Chairman of the Standing Committee on International Relations and 

Ties with the CIS, House of Representatives of the National Assembly, Belarus 

Wim F. Van Eekelen – Member, Netherlands Advisory Commission on European Integration 

Danny Yatom – CEO & Co-Chairman, G. S. G Global Strategic Group, Israel 

Commentator: 

Ion Stavila – Head, Bureau of Reintegration, Republic of Moldova 

Nikolai Zlobin – Senior Fellow and Director, Russian and Asian Program, World Security 

Institute, Russia 


Carina Stachetti – Head of Russia, Ukraine & Eurasia Department, Directorate for 

Strategic Affairs, Ministry of Defence, France 

Alla Yazkova – Head of Center for Mediterranean-Black Sea Studies, Institute of Europe, 

Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia 


Problems of Regional Security 

– Is Common Ground Possible? 


14.50 – 15.00 – Closing remarks 

15.00 – Lunch

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