Program :

12:30-13:15: Lunch buffet

13:15-13:25: Welcome remarks by the organizers

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

Leo Litra, Senior Policy Fellow, European Security Programme, Senior Research Fellow, New Europe Center, Ukraine

13:25-13h35: Keynote speech by Benjamin Haddad, Minister Delegate to the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, in charge of European Affairs, in charge of European Affairs, France (visio)

13:35-13h45: Keynote speech by Vsevolod Chentsov, Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration, Ukraine (visio)

13:45-15:00: Towards a Diplomatic Settlement? Actors, Formats and Conditions for a Lasting Peace

Chair: Dimitri Minic, Research Fellow, Scientific Director of the Russia, Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia Observatory, Russia/Eurasia Center, Ifri

Speakers:

Ukraine:

• Rostyslav Ohryzko, Deputy State Secretary, Secretariat of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine
• Nadiia Koval, Policy Fellow, European Policy Institute in Kyiv (EPIK)

France: 

• Arnaud Guillois, Director for Continental Europe, Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs
• Stéphane Audrand, Associate Research Fellow, Security Studies Center, Ifri
• Arnaud Valli, Head of Public Affairs, Comand AI

15:00-15:30: Coffee break

15:30-16:45: Ukraine's Euro-Atlantic Integration: EU Accession and Relations with NATO

Chair: Olena Halushka, Board Member at the International Renaissance Foundation, Board Member at the Anti-Corruption Action Center, Ukraine

Speakers:

Ukraine: 

• Alyona Getmanchuk, Head of the Mission of Ukraine to NATO
• Vadym Halaychuk, First Deputy Chairperson of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Ukraine's Integration into the European Union

France: 

• Vincent Guérend, Director for the European Union, Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs
• François Benaroya, CEO of Europe-Mediterranean, BNP Paribas
• Hugues Mingarelli, Honorary Deputy General Director at European Commission

16:45-18:00: Post-War Ukraine: Societal and Elite Transformations and Recovery Prospects

Chair: Anna Colin Lebedev, Assistant Professor at Paris Nanterre University and Scientific Director of the Observatory of Contemporary Ukraine

Speakers:

Ukraine: 

• Oleksandr Sushko, Executive Director, International Renaissance Foundation
• Maryna Kumeda, Writer, Journalist, and Member of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (visio)
• Anastasia Fomichova, Research Associate at the Center for European Studies at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (NaUKMA), and Research Director at the think tank “EU LEAP” (visio)

France: 

• Muriel Lacoue-Labarthe, France's Special Envoy for Ukraine's Recovery and Reconstruction
• Céline Bardet, International Lawyer, Specialist in War Crimes

18:00-18h10: Concluding remarks

Vadym Omelchenko, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the French Republic

18:15-20:30: Cocktail reception near Ifri (by invitation)
 

Co-organized by Ifri (Paris) and the New Europe Center (Kyiv)

With the support of the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs

For this event, the New Europe Center benefits from the support of the International Renaissance Foundation