Programme

18th meeting of the EU-Ukraine Civil Society Platform

10.00 | Welcome words by co-chairs of the EU-Ukraine Civil Society Platform

  • Michael McLoughlin, EU co-chair
  • Olha Tarasenko, Ukrainian co-chair

Welcome by Stefano Palmieri, President, External Relations Section

State of play of the implementation of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement and progress in the accession process of Ukraine to the EU

Speakers:

  • Vadym Halaychuk, First Deputy Head of Committee of Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on integration to EU, Chair of EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Association Committee
  • H.E. Vsevolod Chentsov, Head of Mission of Ukraine to the EU
  • Paloma Hall Caballero, Ukraine Division, European External Action Service
  • Peter Polajnar, Deputy Head of Economic and Sectoral Policies Unit, Ukraine Service, DG ENEST, European Commission

Discussion

11.15 | Coffee break

11.30

Speakers:

  • Representative of Office of the Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine

  • Dr. Sergii Moskvin - Implementation of EU acts on investment funds: why is the relevant Ukrainian law not being adopted?"

  • Tamara Malkova - Green dimension of Ukraine Facility - backstage of success

  • Ivan Kulchytskyy and Sintija Bernava - Challenges in the field of education, science and innovation in Ukraine 

  • Larysa Starikova - Agrarian sector realities in 2025
  • Oleksandr Vozniuk - Implementation of European Directives to Ukrainian legislation - Role of civil society in the process of adoption of decisions

12.30 | Exchange with Pekka Toveri, Chair, Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Association Committee, European Parliament

13.00 | Lunch break

14.30 | A predictable and common European way forward for Ukrainians in the EU

Speakers:

  • Dmytro Lubinets,  Commissioner of Human Rights of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Ombudsman,
  • Mateusz Szymański, EESC rapporteur
  • Vasyl Andreyev - Ukraine developments in labour and social reforms

  • Olesia Tarasenko, ⁠Advisor to the President of the Union of Employers’ Organisations of Ukraine, President of Ukrainian-Swiss Foundation VIDNOVA: From Protection to Participation: New Integration Architecture for Ukrainian Displaced Persons in the EU and Switzerland

  • Tatiana Borysiuk, Federation of Employers of Ukraine

15.30 | Coffee break

15.45 | Engaging Ukrainian civil society in EESC activities

  • Sabrina Tesoka, Coordinator of the Enlargement Candidate Members initiative

  • Mariia Korban, Ukrainian Prism, hosted in the EESC Ukraine Hub

16.15 | Adoption of the joint declaration