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Institute of World Policy in partnership with CIDOB (Barcelona Centre for International Affairs, Spain) organized two-day study visit of 27 European thought leaders – representatives of the best EU think tanks, editors, and leading journalists.The second day of the visit started with a public debate in the Ukrainian Media Crisis Center. The European experts briefly discussed media coverage of the Ukrainian events in their native countries, and named the factors affecting the position of EU governments regarding Ukrainian-Russian conflict.
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Marco Di Liddo, leading analyst at the Centre of International Studies (Italy), Gemma Poerzgen, famous German journalist, Tim Judah famous British journalist, Anton Bendarzsevszkij, director at the Hungarian Geopolitical Institute of Russia and Central Asia Studies, Corentin Brustlein, Head of the Deterrence and Proliferation program at the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI).
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The European thought leaders learned about security situation in Ukraine directly from the Head of the Security Service of Ukraine Valentyn Nalyvaichenko and his adviser Yevhen Marchuk.
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During the working lunch participants discussed the internal and security situation in Ukraine with the leading Ukrainian experts, including Oleksiy Melnyk, Co-director of Foreign Relations and International Security Programmes at Razumkov Centre, Dmytro Shulga, European Program Initiative Director at the International Renaissance Foundation.
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Mykhailo Honchar, President of the Centre for Global Studies “Strategy XXI”, told about energy security of Ukraine.
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Prof. Oleksiy Haran, Head of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy’s Political Analysis School.
The participants got a unique opportunity to hear about the situation in Ukrainian regions directly from the experts and civil activists from Lviv, Dnipropetrovsk, Lugansk, Odesa, Donetsk and Kharkiv. The regional thought leaders came to Kyiv at the invitation of the IWP.
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The European experts met Viktoriya Bryndza, analyst at Promova (Lviv), political analyst Julia Bidenko (Kharkiv), journalist Denys Kazanskyy (Donetsk, Kyiv), political analyst Yuriy Raykhel (Dnipropetrovsk), civic activist Yevgeniya Zavaliy (Odessa) and Maria Zolkina, analyst at the Fund “Democratic Initiatives” (Lugansk, Kyiv).
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Meeting with Natalie Jaresko, Minister of Finance of Ukraine.
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Meeting with Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Prime Minister of Ukraine.
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During working dinner our European delegation got acquainted with the activists of the civil initiative Reanimation Reform Package. Representatives of the initiative told the European experts about Ukrainian civil society efforts to reform Ukraine.
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Andriy Shevchenko, former MP of Ukraine, advocacy consultant at the Reanimation Reform Package
Daria Kaleniuk, Executive Director of the Anti-Corruption Action Center, described the activities of Ukrainian civic society to expose corruption schemes and put corrupt officials behind bars.
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Lyubov Akulenko, Director of European Programs “Center UA”
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Photos from the first day of the working visit are available here

It was the second such visit, organized by the IWP. The first one took place in May, 2014.

The visit was supported by:

“Ukraine National Initiatives to Enhance Reforms” (UNITER) project, funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and implemented by the Pact in Ukraine;

Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Ukraine;

“Initiative on the think tanks development in Ukraine”, operated by International Renaissance Foundation in partnership with the Think Tank Fund (TTF) and funded by the Embassy of Sweden in Ukraine (SIDA).