Our project will be CONFERENCE: New challenges and threats to the process of European Integration – European Union and Ukraine Warsaw, March/April 2006

Everyone interested in the issue is invited to the Conference at the Institute of Political Studies of Polish Academy of Sciences. Please, note that the Conference is still being planned so if you want to take part in organizing it together with us contact us at any time.

Languages of the Conference: English and Ukrainian

Day 1, 10:00 – 16:30

10:00 – 10:30
Opening of the conference (welcoming speech of the representatives of the EU, OSCE and Crimean Tatars)

Panel 1 European identities 10:30 – 13:00

10:30 – 10:55
The crisis of European Identity (speech of the representatives of the EU or Western NGO)
10:55 – 11:20
The processes of identity and nation building in Ukraine after “Orange Revolution”
(speech of the representative of the Administration of the President of Ukraine)
11:20 – 11:45
Crimean Tatars – their role and contribution to the process of Ukrainian political nation in the 21st century
(speech of Mustafa Dzhemilev, the Chairman of Mejlis of Crimean Tatars)

11:45 – 12:00 Coffee break

12:00 – 13:00 Plenary discussion

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

Panel II: Eastern policy of the European Union in the second half of the critical decade (2006-2010). Goals and instruments: redefinition.
14:00 – 16:30

14:00 – 14:25
Crisis of the EU, Common Foreign & Security Policy (CFSP), “flanking policies” of the EU – new threats and new chances (speech of the representative of Poland)

14:25 – 14:50
New role of OSCE in the geopolitical sphere between the EU and Russia
(speech of the representative of OSCE)

14:50 – 15:15
Mission of OSCE in the Crimea (speech of prof. M.Suezawa, Japan)
15:15 – 15:40
Role of NGOs and mass media in new relations between the EU and non-EU states (Model Crimean Tatars – Ukraine - EU) (common Ukrainian – Polish presentation)

15:40 – 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 – 17:00 Plenary discussion

Day II 10:00 – 14:45
Panel III
European integration and the problems of ethnic and religious identity.

10:00 – 10:30
European integration and minorities. Case of Latvia (a Lithuanian)
10:30 – 11:00
European aspirations and religious dimension. Case of Turkey (a Turk)

11:00 – 11:15 – Coffee break

11:15 – 11:45
Crimean Tatars and European Aspirations of Ukraine. Advantage or weakness?
- Ukrainian point of view (speech of the representative of Ukraine)
- Tatar point of view (speech of the representative of Tatars)

12:15 – 13:30 – discussion

13:30– 14:30 lunch

14:30 – 15:00 – Summary

15.00 Closing of the Conference