Events

09.30 – 10.00         Registration of the participants

10.00 – 10.15         Opening of the conference:
Jacek Kucharczyk, President of the Executive Board, the Institute of Public Affairs
Ewa Kulik-Bielińska, Executive Director,theStefan Batory Foundation
Wolfgang Templin, Director of the Heinrich Böll Foundation Warsaw

10.15 – 10.45          Opening speeches:
Andrzej Cieszkowski, Plenipotentiary of the Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Eastern Partnership
Maciej Stadejek, Policy Officer, Department for Russia, Eastern Neighbourhood and Western Balkans, European External Action Service
 
10.45 – 12.20       Prospects for further development of the Eastern Partnership - assessment of the European Commission’s proposals
Borys Tarasyuk, Member of Ukrainian PArliament, Our Ukraine - People Self Defense Block, Ukraine
Tamar Beruchashvili, Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Georgia
Elżbieta Kaca, Expert, the Institute of Public Affairs, Poland
Dzianis Melyantsou,Senior Analyst, Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies, Belarus 
Alex Oprunenco, International Programmes Director, Expert Grup, Moldova
Moderator:  Jacek Kucharczyk, President of the Executive Board, the Institute of Public Affairs

12.20 – 13.00          Lunch

13.00 – 14.30      The Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum as an instrument for democratization of the Eastern European countries
Krzysztof Stanowski,Undersecretary of State for Development and Economic Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland       
Gabriela Svarovska, Expert, Czech Republic
Jacek Kucharczyk, President of the Executive Board, the Institute of Public Affairs
Iris Kempe, Director of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Georgia
Moderator: Jeff Lovitt, Executive Director, PASOS, Czech Republic
 
14.30 – 14.50          Coffee break
 
14.50 – 16.30         The perspectives of visa regime liberalisation in the Eastern Partnership countries
Tamara Pataraia, Expert, Caucasus Institute for Peace, Democracy and Development, Georgia
Jeff Lovitt, Executive Director, PASOS, Czech Republic
Piotr Rakowski, Councellor to the Minister, European Policy Department, Ministry
of Foreign Affairs of Poland
Piotr Kaźmierkiewicz, Expert , The Institute of Public Affairs, Poland
Moderator: Joanna Fomina, "Friendly EU Border" Project Coordinator Open Europe, theStefan Batory Foundation, Poland
 
Conference will be held in English
Organisers provide English to Polish simultaneous translation.

Information about the conference:  Łukasz Wenerski (phone: 22 556 42 68), email: lukasz.wenerski@isp.org.pl
 
To register at a conference please fill in internet survey, phone at: 22 556 42 60 or send an e-mail: recepcja@isp.org.pl

Project co-financed by:
Heinrich Böll Foundation in Poland