PROGRAM
Opening remarks
Tomáš Strážay, Director, Slovak Foreign Policy Association (SFPA)
Christopher Forst, Director of the FES Office “Dialogue Eastern Europe”
Keynote speech and Q&A session
Peter Kmec, Deputy Prime Minister for the Recovery and Resilience Plan and the use of EU funds
Panel 1: Ramifications of the war on Ukraine on the EU enlargement – “when” and “how” for the Ukrainian accession?
PANELISTS
Ivan Nagornyak, Advisor to the Center for Economic Recovery (Ukraine), former Deputy Director General of the Government Office for Coordination for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine
Alexander Duleba, Senior Research Fellow, Slovak Foreign Policy Association (SFPA)
Christos Katsioulis, Director, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Regional Office for International Cooperation, Vienna
Marie Krpata, Research Fellow, French Institute of International Relations (IFRI)
HOST
Eva Mihočková, zahranicnapolitika.sk
Panel 2: Internal reform of the EU as a prerequisite to future enlargement?
PANELISTS
Vladimír Šimoňák, 2nd State Secretary, Ministry of Economy of the Slovak Republic
Maryna Yaroshevych, Foreign Policy Council “Ukrainian Prism”, Deputy Director Europe
Sandra Dias Fernandes, Director of the Research Centre in Political Science (CICP), University of Minho, Portugal
Matej Navrátil, Researcher, Institute of European Studies and International Relations, Comenius University Bratislava
HOST
Barbara Zmušková, Euractiv.sk
Panel 3: Where are our ambitions for enlargement in the Western Balkans?
PANELISTS
Jana Juzová, Research Fellow, EUROPEUM, Czechia
Florent Marciacq, Deputy Secretary General, Austro-French Centre for Rapprochement in Europe (AFC)
Simonida Kacarska, Director, European Policy Institute, Skopje
Vedran Džihić, Senior Researcher, Austrian Institute for International Affairs (OIIP)
HOST
Pavol Demeš, former Slovak Minister of Foreign Affairs and co-founder of SFPA
Panel 4: 20 years since the “big bang” enlargement – lessons learned, challenges and opportunities
PANELISTS
Barbara Wolf, German Ambassador to Slovakia
Adam Balcer, Programme Director, Kolegium of Eastern Europe (KEW), Poland
Gergely Romsics, Senior Research Fellow, Research Center for the Humanities, Institute of History, Hungary
HOST
Andrej Matišák, Pravda Daily
Closing remarks
Tomáš Strážay, Director, Slovak Foreign Policy Association (SFPA)
The conference is organized by the Slovak Foreign Policy Association (SFPA) in cooperation and with the support of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung. Further partners of the conference are the Austro-French Centre for Rapprochement in Europe and a consorcium of international partners including IFRI, BIGS, CIDOB, EGMONT, IEP, KEW and OIIP.
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