2024 France-Ukraine Forum Conférence

13:00-13:30: Registration and welcome coffee

13.30-13:40: Introductory remarks by the organizers

Tatiana Kastouéva-Jean, Director, Russia/Eurasia Center, Ifri, France

Alyona Getmanchuk, Director, New Europe Center, Ukraine

13:40-14:15: Welcome address by Thomas Gomart, Director of Ifri,
followed by keynote speeches of the Ministers

Dmytro Kuleba, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (online)

Jean-Noël Barrot, Minister Delegate for Europe, Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs of France (online)

14:15-15:30: How can the “war of attrition” be won by Ukraine?

Moderator: Dimitri Minic, Researcher, Russia/Eurasia Center, Ifri

Panelists:

• Brice Roquefeuil, Director for Continental Europe, Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs of France
• Rostyslav Ogryzko, Director of Europe division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
• Pierre Haroche, French researcher on European security, Lecturer in International Relations & International Security, Queen Mary University of London.
• Mykhailo Gonchar, President, Centre for Global Studies “Strategy XXI”, Ukraine
• Olena Halushka, Member of the Board, Anticorruption Action Center (AntAC, Kyiv), co-founder of International Center for Ukraine Victory (ICUV)

15:30-16:00: Coffee break        
 

16:00-17:15: Army, elites, society: can the “sacred union” be shattered?

Moderator:  Tatiana Kastouéva-Jean, Head of the Russia/Eurasia Center, Ifri

Panelists:

• Olha Aivazovska, Head of the Board of the Civil Network OPORA NGO, Ukraine
• Ioulia Shukan, Lecturer in Slavic Studies, University of Paris Nanterre, Researcher, Institute for Political Social Science (ISP/CNRS)
• Hanna Hopko, Chair of the Board, ANTS NGO’s network, Ukraine
• Alexandra Goujon, Lecturer at the University of Burgundy and at Sciences Po-Paris
• Tetiana Ogarkova, Lecturer, Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Head of International Department, Ukraine Crisis Media Center (UCMC), author of the podcast “L'Ukraine face à la guerre”

17:15-18:30: Big Euroatlantic deal for Ukraine: perspectives for the EU and NATO accession

Moderator: Leo Litra, Senior Research Fellow, New Europe Center

Panelists:

• David Cvach, Direction of European Union, Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs of France
• Oleksandr Sushko, Executive Director, International Renaissance Foundation
• Benjamin Haddad, President of the France-Ukraine Friendship Group at the French National Assembly
• Iryna Solonenko, Senior Fellow, Center for Liberal Modernity (LibMod)
• Marie Dumoulin, Director, Wider Europe program, European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR)

18:30-18:45: Closing remarks: 

Vadym Omelchenko, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to France

Manuel Lafont Rapnouil, Head of Policy Planning, Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs of France

18:45-19:30: Cocktail at Ifri

The conference will be held in French and Ukrainian with simultaneous translation

In partnership with

For this event, New Europe Center is supported by International Renaissance Foundation.