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Yalta European Strategy 4TH ANNUAL YALTA MEETING PROGRAM Thursday, June 28, Kyiv Introduction by Stephen Byers, MP, Chairman of the Board of YES
Moderator: Victor Pinchuk, founder and member of the Board of YES Address by President of Ukraine Victor Yushchenko
Address by Prime Minister of Slovenia Janez Jansa
Address by Chancellor of Germany (1998-2005) Gerhard Schroeder Friday, June 29, Yalta 15:00 – 15:30 - Conference opening. Welcome by S. Byers 15:30 – 17:00 – Roundtable plenary session: Agenda 2020 and the Future of the EU-Ukraine Relations Aleksander Kwasniewski, President of Poland (1995-2005), member of the Board of YES
Gerhard Schroeder, Chancellor of Germany (1998-2005)
Marek Siwiec, Vice President of the European Parliament, member of the Board of YES
Arseniy Yatseniuk, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
Moderator: Christine Ockrent 17:00 – 18:00 - Keynote plenary session Introduction by Victor Pinchuk
President of the USA (1993-2001) William J. Clinton
Discussion.
Moderator: Christine Ockrent 18:00 – Conference photo Saturday, June 30, Yalta 09:00 – 10:30 - Plenary session: UEFA EURO 2012: Will it Make a Difference for Ukraine? Vitaly Klitchko, Adviser to the President of Ukraine
Ivan Fedorenko, Executive Director, EURO 2012 (Ukraine)
Igor Burakovsky, Director, Institute for Economic Analysis and Political Consultations
Adam Olkowicz, Chief of EURO2012 at the Polish Football Association
Moderator: Christine Ockrent 10:30 – 11:00 – Break 11:00 – 13:00 – Parallel Workshops Issue reports:
Free Trade Area, by Oleksandr Chalyi, Deputy Head of the Secretariat of the President of Ukraine
Energy Transparency and Revenue Watch, by Karin Lissakers, Director, Revenue Watch Institute, USA
Rule of Law and the Judiciary Reform, by Jose Pedro Aguiar-Branco, Minister of Justice (2004-2005), Portugal Three parallel workshops (1) Rule of Law and the Judiciary Reform (co-organized by the International Renaissance Foundation)
Fight against corruption
Implementation of law
Separating business from politics
Making courts independent and credible (2) The New Free Trade Area: what’s in it for Ukraine and for the EU?
Immediate effects of the FTA
Improvements above the WTO membership
Required adjustments in Ukraine (3) Energy: Security, Transparency and Price (co-organized the International Renaissance Foundation)
Security (reduction of consumption, diversification of sources, international cooperation between public and private players) Transparency of ownership, price and regulations
Price
Impact on population and business 14:30 – 16:00 - Plenary session: Political Scene in Ukraine The party’s action plan for Ukraine’s integration into the EU;
The party’s action plan for economic reform;
The party’s action plan for reforming the judiciary
Hryhory Nemyria, Yulia Tymoshenko Block
Ksenia Lyapina, “Nasha Ukraina”
Moderator: Alexander Rahr, Programme Director, German Council on Foreign Relations, member of the Board of YES 16:00 – 17:30 - Plenary session: Changing Political Leadership in Europe and the World
Stephen Byers, MP (UK), Chairman of the Board of YES;
Olivier Duhamel, Professeur, Sciences Po (France);
Elmar Brok, MEP, member of the Foreign Affairs Committee (Germany)
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Minister of Economy and Finance (1997-1999), Member of Parliament (France)
Carlos Pascual, Vice President of the Brookings Institution (USA);
Moderator: Christine Ockrent 17:30 - 18:00 - Closing remarks: Victor Pinchuk 
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