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Ukraine – On Route to the West

Freitag, 08.12.2023

14:30 Uhr

Arrival and Check-in

15:00 Uhr

Coffee and Cake

15:30 Uhr

Words of Welcome

Thomas MÜLLER-FÄRBER, Program Director International Affairs, Protestant Academy Loccum

15:45 Uhr

Ukraine’s Long Road to the West – Or the Other Way Around?

Viola von CRAMON, MdEP (the Greens/European Free Alliance) Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and Vice-Chair of the Delegation of the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Association Committee, Brussels/Göttingen (confirmed)

Kateryna MISHCHENKO, Writer, Publisher, and Fellow at Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Berlin/Kyiv (confirmed)

Inna NELLES, Co-Founder of the German-Ukrainian Bureau (Deutsch-Ukrainisches Büro), Düsseldorf/Berlin (confirmed)

17:00 Uhr

Coffee and Tea Break

17:15 Uhr

Current Trends and Future Developments on the Battlefield

Nico LANGE, Senior Fellow, Munich Security Conference, Berlin (confirmed)

Mykhailo SAMUS, Director, New Geopolitics Research Network, Kyiv (confirmed)

18:30 Uhr

Dinner

19:30 Uhr

Enlargement, the EU and Ukraine – Is it Possible to Square the Circle of Widening, Deepening and Reforming?

Liubov AKULENKO, Executive Director, Center for European Policy (UCEP), Kyiv (confirmed)

Rebecca HARMS, Vice Chair, European Centre for Press and Media Freedom and former Member of the European Parliament (2004-2019) (confirmed)

Victoria VOYTSITSKA, International Center for Ukrainian Victory (ICUV) and former Member of the Ukrainian Parliament, Kyiv (confirmed)

21:00 Uhr

Informal Get Together at the Gallery

Samstag, 09.12.2023

08:15 Uhr

Morning Prayer (optional)

08:30 Uhr

Breakfast

09:15 Uhr

A Multidimensional EU-Process of Widening, Deepening, and Reforming

09:15 Uhr

Deepening

Fit for Ukraine? How the EU Needs to Change in Light of Further Rounds of Enlargement?


Rémi DUFLOT, Deputy Head, The Delegation of the European Union to Ukraine, Brussels/Kyiv (confirmed)

Inna MELNYKOVSKA, Assistant Professor, Comparative Political Economy and Political Science

Department, Central European University, Vienna (confirmed)

Roderick PARKES, Research Director and Head of the Alfred von Oppenheim Center for the Future of Europe, German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), Berlin (confirmed)

Arndt WONKA, Professor, Institute European Studies, University of Bremen (confirmed)


Moderation: Julia FRIEDRICH, Research Fellow, Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi), Berlin (confirmed)

10:45 Uhr

Coffee and Tea Break

11:00 Uhr

Reforming

Back on the Agenda: How to Revitalize EU-Enlargement Policy under New Circumstances?


Petra GOMBALOVA KYSLINGEROVA, Head, Ukraine Unit, European External Action Service, Brussels (confirmed)

Engjellushe MORINA, Senior Policy Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), Berlin (confirmed)

Iryna KOSSE, Leading Research Fellow, Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting, and Member of the EU-Ukraine Civil Society Platform, Kyiv (confirmed)

Amanda PAUL, Senior Policy Analyst, European in the World Programme and leader of the “Ukraine’s European Future” project, European Policy Centre (EPC), Brussels (confirmed)


Moderation: Oleksandra KEUDEL, Associate Professor at Kyiv School of Economics

12:30 Uhr

Lunch

13:30 Uhr

Optional Sightseeing Tour to the Monastery Loccum (founded 1163)

15:00 Uhr

Coffee and Cake

15:30 Uhr

Widening

Kyiv’s Homework: Key Challenges on Ukraine’s Route to the EU


Oksana HUSS, Researcher at University of Bologna and Lecturer at the Kyiv School of Economics, Kyiv/Bologna (confirmed)

Wilfried JILGE, Historian and Ukraine Expert, Associate Fellow of the DGAP (German Council on Foreign Relations) and Senior Adviser Ukraine and Wider Black Sea Region at the Integrated Response HUB for Ukraine, Stabilization Platform, GIZ, Berlin (confirmed)

Mattia NELLES, Policy Advisor and Co-Founder of the German-Ukrainian Bureau (Deutsch-Ukrainisches Büro), Düsseldorf/Berlin (confirmed)

Iryna SOLONENKO, Senior Fellow at the Center for Liberal Modernity, Kyiv/Berlin (confirmed)


Moderation: Laura CHRISTOPH, Project Manager and Research Associate, UA Transformation Lab and Ukraine Perspectives, IEP (Institut für Europäische Politik), Berlin (confirmed)

17:00 Uhr

Coffee and Tea Break

17:15 Uhr

Parallel Writing Workshops: Trying to Pen Key Findings and Policy Recommendations

Room C – Widening

Room E – Reforming

Room G – Deepening

18:30 Uhr

Dinner

19:30 Uhr

Ukraine’s Role in Europe’s Future Security Architecture

Thomas LENK, Head of Unit Ukraine, Moldova, Black Sea Cooperation, German Foreign Office, Berlin (confirmed)

Mattia NELLES, Policy Advisor and Co-Founder of the German-Ukrainian Bureau (Deutsch-Ukrainisches Büro), Düsseldorf/Berlin (confirmed)

Susan STEWART, Head, Eastern Europe & Eurasia Research Division, German Institute for

International and Security Affairs (SWP), Berlin (confirmed)


Moderation: Thomas MÜLLER-FÄRBER, Program Director

International Affairs, Protestant Academy Loccum

21:00 Uhr

Informal Get Together at the Gallery

Sonntag, 10.12.2023

08:15 Uhr

Morning Prayer (optional)

08:30 Uhr

Breakfast

09:30 Uhr

Presenting and Discussing the Findings of the Breakout Groups

10:45 Uhr

Coffee and Tea Break

11:00 Uhr

Ukraine’s Rocky Way to the West: Key Takeaways and Open Question

Mariia MEZENTSEVA, Member of the Ukrainian Parliament (Servant of the People), Head of the Ukrainian Delegation to the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly and Deputy Head of the Committee on European Integration, Kyiv (invited)

Mariia IONOVA, Member of the Ukrainian Parliament (European Solidarity), Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and the Committee for inter-parliamentarian cooperation, Kyiv (confirmed)

Robin WAGENER, Special Envoy for the Cooperation with the Civil Society within the Eastern Partnership at the German Foreign Office, Member of Parliament (Greens) and Chair of the German-Ukrainian Parliamentarian Group, Berlin/Bad Salzuflen (confirmed)

12:20 Uhr

Wrap-Up & Words of Farwell

Thomas MÜLLER-FÄRBER, Program Director International Affairs, Protestant Academy Loccum

12:30 Uhr

Goodbye Lunch

12:50 Uhr

Bus Shuttle to Wunstorf