The UNP EaP CSF and IER invite you to the public discussion "The Negotiation Process on Ukraine's Accession to the EU: Involvement and Role of Civil Society"

On 31 October 2024 at 11.00 – 13.00 (Kyiv time)

Registration is here https://forms.gle/7gYwaqX7fimuTXH28

The event will take place online.

The working languages are Ukrainian and English with simultaneous translation in Zoom for those who have previously registered.

The purpose of the event is:

to discuss the opportunities and challenges of involving civil society, including the Ukrainian National Platform of the EaP CSF, in the negotiation process for Ukraine's EU membership;

to define which forms of involvement of civil society organizations are most effective and which activities of the platform can be useful in this context;

to exchange experience of civil society activities and their role in the negotiation process in countries that have joined the EU or, like Ukraine, are on the way to the EU;

to analyze the best practices of involvement of public organizations in the process of European integration and the possibility of using experience in supporting the implementation of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU.

welcome speech

Gurden Petrosyan, Human Development Research Initiative, Co-Chair of the Steering Committee Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum, Brussels, Belgium (tbc) and Tania Marocchi, Director Secretariat of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum, Brussels, Belgium

Presentation of the conclusions and recommendations of the UNP position document and their importance in the context of the negotiation process,

Ruslan Havryliuk, National Coordinator of the UNP EaP CSF, Head of National Ecological Center of Ukraine

Speaker’s

Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze, Chairperson of the Committee of the Verkhovna Rada on Ukraine’s Integration into the European Union (tbc)

Olena Hrypych, State expert on Green Deal, Environment and climate change. Government Office for Coordination on European and Euro-Atlantic Integration

Liubov Akulenko, Executive director Ukrainian Centre for European Policy

Toni Vidan, President of the European Environmental Bureau, Brussels, Belgium

Iordanka-Rodika Iordanova, Executive Director EcoContact, Moldova

Igor Burakovsky, Head of the Board IER (Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting)

Anton Antonenko, Vise-President DiXi Group

Moderator of the discussion - Nataliya Andrusevtch, Resource and Analysis Center "Society and Environment", coordinator of WG3 of the UNP EaP CSF

The event is conducted within the framework of the project “Supporting the activities of the Ukrainian National Platform of the EaP CSF in 2024”, funded by the European Union and implemented by the Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting.

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