European Economic
and Social Committee
Programme
2020 and beyond: civil society's vision of the future of the Eastern Partnership
10.15-11.15 Ten years of the Eastern Partnership – main achievements and missed opportunities
- Ms Indrė Vareikytė, President of the Eastern Neighbours Follow-up Committee and Rapporteur of the EESC opinion on 10 years of Eastern Partnership
- Mr Christian Danielsson, Director-General, DG NEAR, European Commission
- Mr Richard Giragosian, Director, Regional Studies Centre, Armenia
- Mr Rikard Jozwiak, Reporter, Radio Free Europe
11.15-12.15 Stronger and empowered civil society for a stronger partnership
- Mr Radosław Darski, Deputy Head of Eastern Partnership Division, EEAS
- Eastern Partnership Co-chairs of the EU civil society platforms (CSP):
- Mr Vyacheslav Roy, Co-chair of the EU-Ukraine CSP
- Mr Kakha Gogolashvili, Co-chair of the EU-Georgia CSP
- Mr Ion Guzun, Co-chair of the EU-Moldova CSP
- Ms Luisa Santos, Director for International Relations, BusinessEurope
- Mr Luca Visentini, General Secretary, European Trade Union Confederation - tbc
- Mr Siarhei Antusevich, Vice-President, Belarusian Congress Of Democratic Trade Unions
- Ms Eka Gigauri, Executive Director,Transparency International, Georgia
12.15-13.00 Eastern Partnership beyond 2020 – what's next?
- Mr Dmitry Yarmoliuk, Deputy Head of the European Cooperation Department - Head of European Union Unit, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus
- Mr Serhii Saienko, Deputy Director-General for the EU and NATO, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
- Mr Jonas Daniliauskas, Ambassador-at-Large for Eastern Partnership, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania
- Mr Iulian Groza, Executive Director, Institute for European Policies and Reforms, Moldova
- Ms Khadija Ismayilova, freelance journalist, Azerbaijan - videomessage
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