Expert panel
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Western Balkans Accession to EU: Lessons for Ukraine
Expert discussion
Ukrainian Centre for European Policy, YouTube
At the event, there will take place presentation of the key findings of the relevant UCEP study on the analysis of the experience of selected Western Balkans countries, which are now candidate countries for EU membership and have already passed certain stages of this process. The key lessons learned by the Balkan countries from this process have become the basis for recommendations that will be useful to Ukraine as a country that has recently obtained a candidate status and is at the beginning of this path.
In particular, the recommendations relate to the development of effective communication with both Brussels and individual EU member states on the elimination of political obstacles on the way of Ukraine’s accession to the EU, as well as better understanding and effective passage of the purely bureaucratic accession procedure (based on the updated EU enlargement methodology for the Western Balkans). However, the key block of recommendations will be based on the identification and avoidance of the main mistakes made by the Balkan countries during the accession process, as well as the identification of those steps which, on the contrary, contributed to progress in accession negotiations with the official EU and the most influential EU member states.
The event will be held online on November 9 at 10 am (UTC +2) in English.
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Program
10:00 - 10:05 Welcome remarks
10:05 - 10:40 Presentation of the UCEP study «The Western Balkans’ accession to the EU: lessons for Ukraine»
Dmytro Naumenko, senior analyst of The Ukrainian Centre for European Policy;
Florian Bieber, Director of the Centre for Southeast European Studies at the University of Graz, Coordinator of the Balkan Policy Advisory Group in Europe (BiEPAG);
Borja Lasheras, Senior Fellow with the Transatlantic Defense and Security program at the Center for European Policy (CEPA).
10:40 - 11:15 Discussion "Formation of a rational approach for further Ukraine's accession to the EU"
Moderation: Liubov Akulenko, UCEP
Mykhailo Latinskyi, adviser to the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine;
Ivan Nagornyak, adviser to Vice Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine;
Andriy Sklyar, Deputy Head of the Department for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration, Office of the President of Ukraine.
