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YALTA EUROPEAN STRATEGY (YES) 5th YALTA ANNUAL MEETING Yalta, Ukraine, 10 – 13 July 2008
Thursday, July 10 20:30 – Welcome Reception, Oreanda Hotel, Yalta Friday, July 11 09:00 – Opening of the Yalta Annual Meeting Rt Hon Stephen Byers, MP, Chairman of the Board of YES Victor Pinchuk, Founder and Member of the Board of YES 09:30 – 11:00 – Plenary session: The New World Economic Setup and Impact on Ukraine What are the new worldwide economic challenges? What can be the consequences of the sub-prime crisis, of the growing influence of the BRICS, and the commodity price increase for Europe and Ukraine? What is the connection between the global economic trends and the inflation in Ukraine? Moderator: Richard Haass Keynote speaker: Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Managing Director of the IMF Panel: Anders Aslund, Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics Leszek Balcerowicz, Chairman of the Central Bank of Poland (2001-2007) Klaus Mangold, Chairman, East–West Committee of German Industry, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Bank Rothschild Jean Pisani-Ferry, Director of Bruegel Petro Poroshenko, Chairman of the Supervisory board of the National Bank of Ukraine 11:00 – 11:30 – coffee break 11:30 – 13:00 – Plenary session: The Future of the European Union What will be the impact of the Irish “No” vote and what is the future of the Lisbon treaty? What will be the project of the EU for the coming 20 years, its strategic orientations, and its future frontiers? What should be its foreign, security and defense policy? What will be the consequences for Ukraine? Moderator: Richard Haass Panel: Elmar Brok, Member of the European Parliament Charles Grant, Director, Centre for European Reform Mario David, MP, Vice President of the EPP, Member of the Board of YES Olivier Duhamel, Professor, Paris Institute of Political Studies Mikulas Dzurinda, Prime Minister of Slovakia (1998-2006) Marek Siwiec, Vice President of the European Parliament, Member of the Board of YES 13:00 – 14:30 – Lunch 14:30 – 16:30 – Three parallel discussion sessions Session 1: Russia, Ukraine and the EU: the Gas Issue Moderator: Alexander Rahr, Programme Director, German Council on Foreign Relations, Member of the Board of YES Speakers: Mykhailo Honchar, Energy Transparency programme director, Nomos Centre Oleksandr Chalyi, Deputy Head of the Secretariat of the President of Ukraine Pirkka Tapiola, Senior Advisor to the EU High Commissioner for CFSP Session 2: The global food crisis: a challenge for Ukraine Moderator: Anna Derevianko, Executive Director of the European Business Association Speakers: Oleksander Paskhaver, Director of the Center for Economic Studies Vladimir Bernstein, Managing Director of Icon Private Equity Fund Session 3: Euro 2012 and infrastructural investment Moderators: Terrence Brown, Executive Director of the EIB, member of the board of the EBRD Panel: Eva Srejber, Vice President of the EIB Jean-Pierre Saltiel, member of the board of YES Andriy Sadovyi, Mayor of Lviv 16:30 – 17:00 - coffee break 17:00 - 18:00 – Plenary session: The future Free Trade Area between EU and Ukraine To what extend can a deep FTA help the integration of Ukraine in the EU? What are the expectations in Ukraine and the EU? What is at stake? How to proceed? Moderator: Richard Haass Panel: Mykola Azarov, Member of Parliament of Ukraine Peter Balas, Deputy Director-General of DG Trade, EU Commission Igor Burakovsky, Director, Institute for Economic Research and Political Consultations Hryhory Nemyria, Vice-Prime Minister of Ukraine Jean-Pierre Saltiel, Member of the Board of YES 18:00 – Conference photo Saturday, July 12, Yalta 09:30 – 11:00 – Plenary session: Elections in Russia and the USA: impact on Ukraine and Europe What will be the foreign policy of the new Russian and American leadership over the coming years? How will it impact their relationship with the European Union and Ukraine, and EU’s further enlargement? Moderator: Richard Haass Panel: Sergey Glaziev, Director, Institute for New Economy, member of the 1st, 3rd and 4th Russian State Duma Kostyantyn Gryshchenko, Ambassador to the Russian Federation and First Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Alexander Rahr, Programme Director, German Council on Foreign Relations, member of the Board of YES Karl Rove, Former Deputy Chief of Staff to George W. Bush and Chief Strategist for Bush's Presidential Campaigns 11:00 – 11:30 – coffee break 11:30 – 13:00 – Plenary session: Building Democracy and Market Economy in the Black Sea Region What are the lessons to be learnt from the transitions in the Black Sea Region? How can they inspire their neighboring countries and Ukraine? What is the room for regional cooperation? What should be the EU policy? Moderator: Richard Haass Keynote speaker: Mikhail Saakashvili, President of Georgia Panel: Raissa Bohatyreva, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Valery Chalyi, Director for International Programmes, Ukrainian Center for Economic and Political Studies (Razumkov Center) Aleksander Kwasniewski, President of Poland (1995-2005), Member of the Board of YES Arseniy Yatseniuk, Speaker of Parliament of Ukraine 13:00 – 14:30 – Lunch 14:30 – 16:00 - Plenary session: Ukraine Agenda 2020 What are the progresses made by Ukraine over the last 4 years? What are the challenges ahead? What is the strategy of the main Ukrainian political forces to reform the country and move ahead toward the EU? Will Ukraine succeed in preparing itself to join the EU by 2020 as proposed by YES? Chair: Aleksander Kwasniewski, President of Poland (1995-2005), Member of the Board of YES Panel: Hryhory Nemyria, Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine, Yulia Tymoshenko Block Leonid Kozhara, Party of Regions of Ukraine Kseniya Lyapina, Member of Parliament of Ukraine,” Our Ukraine” Arseniy Yatseniuk, Speaker of Parliament of Ukraine 16:00 – 16:30 – coffee break 16:30 – 17:30 – Plenary session: A Vision For Europe and Ukraine Moderator: Richard Haass Introductory remarks: Victor Pinchuk, Founder and Member of the Board of YES Keynote speaker: Tony Blair, UK Prime Minister (1997 – 2007) O & A 17:30 - 17:45 - Closing of the 5th Annual Meeting Rt Hon Stephen Byers, MP, Chairman of the Board of YES Victor Pinchuk, founder and member of the board of YES 17:45 – Conference photo 
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