By Alyona Getmanchuk, Director of the Institute of World Policy for “UKRAINSKA PRAVDA”The article is available only in ukrainian
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Poland’s Endeavour to Stay in EU “Premier League”
By Alyona Getmanchuk, Director of the Istitute ot World Policy for “Mirror of the Week” WeeklyThe article is available in Ukrainian.
“Top-30 Notions associated with Ukraine” on “5” Channel
The morning show “Morning with 5th Channel” on June 29th was dedicated to the popular associations with regard to Ukraine in the region.Kateryna Zarembo, Deputy Director of the Institute of World Policy, presented the rating “Top-30 Notions associated with Ukraine”. She told which associations about Ukraine the neighbouring countries have.
The rating is prepared within the framework of the project: “Ukraine’s Soft Power: A tool for effective foreign policy”, which is implemented by the Institute of World Policy with the support of Ukraine National Initiatives to Enhance Reforms (UNITER) project funded by USAID and implemented by Pact, Inc in Ukraine.
When the Polish see corruption, Russians see fruits.
The interview with Alyona Getmanchuk to KyivPost.
Euroatlantist Diary: What are the associations with Ukraine in the neighboring countries?
By Alyona Getmanchuk, Director of the Institute of World Policy for “UKRAINSKA PRAVDA”The article is available only in ukrainian
Ukraine’s Soft Power: TOP 30 Notions Associated with Ukraine in the Region
Institute of World Policy has released the rating “Ukraine’s Soft Power: TOP 30 Notions Associated with Ukraine in the Region”, based on the results of expert survey in Poland, Belarus, Russia, Georgia, Romania and Moldova.When foreigners think of Ukraine, what do they see? A bridge between East and West, a country big on football, Chornobyl, “the country that’s not Russia”? Do these images really match how foreigners see Ukraine, or are they mere national clichés?
In an attempt to find out what the thought of Ukraine really evokes among the intellectual elites of the international community, and as part of the project “Ukraine’s Soft Power: A Tool for effective foreign policy”, the Institute of World Policy surveyed experts, journalists, politicians and statesmen in the six countries that know Ukraine best: its neighbors.
Based on the answers of nearly 100 prominent opinion-makers in these countries (Belarus, Georgia, the Republic of Moldova, Poland, Romania and the Russian Federation), IWP has identified the 5 notions (“Top 5”) most associated with Ukraine in each country.
The full text of the publication in Ukrainian and English is here.
The results of the rating are striking in that neither current bilateral problems, nor political leaders top the lists. Instead, participants mentioned Ukraine’s touristic destinations, its cuisine and its culture. Four out of six countries surveyed described Ukraine as a friendly and hospitable nation. Some Russian experts agreed that Ukraine is not Russia, while Ukraine is perceived as a bridge or a buffer not only by EU member Poland, but also by the small Republic of Moldova.
This report was conducted by the Institute of World Policy as part of its project implemented under Ukraine National Initiatives to Enhance Reforms (UNITER) program, which is funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and implemented by Pact Inc. This
information product is made possible by the generous support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
The rating was presented on June 22, 2011 at the IWP.Photo report.
Media club on DCFTA was held in IWP
Media-club with Vasyl Filipchuk, Director of the European Union Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine was held at the Institute of World Policy on June 17th, 2011.Vasyl Filipchuk answered the questions by the Ukrainian journalists, focusing on negotiation process between Ukraine and the EU on the Association Agreement. He underlined the key aspects of the future DCFTA and overviewd the current stage of the negotiations on visa-free regime.
Prominent Ukrainian journalists working in the field of international relations took part in the Media-club.
The focus-group «Ukraine in NATO Missile Defense System; Pro et Contra» took place in the IWP
The focus-group within the framework of the project «Ukraine in NATO Missile Defense System; Pro et Contra» took place in the Institute of World Policy on June 16th.The project is implemented by the IWP with the support of NATO Liaison Office in Ukraine.
The aim of the project is to make an analytical contribution to the realization of the NATO MDS in Europe and respond to social demand (from the Ukrainian and foreign politicians and diplomats) of analysis of the potential of Ukrainian participation in this system in Europe and the feasibility of such cooperation for Ukraine and NATO.
The participants discussed such issues possible advantages and disadvantages and technical capacity of Ukraine’s engagement in the NATO missile defence system
If the EU is no longer there
Blog by Kateryna Zarembo, Deputy director of the Institute of World Policy for KyivPost.My generation cannot imagine Europe without the European Union.
When we were born, it was there – behind the Iron curtain or the Schengen wall, made up of 27 or fewer members, close or a bit farther. It’s hard to imagine that one day this organization, which is associated with welfare, quality and secure life in Ukraine, could disappear.
However, lately the idea about the threat to the EU existence keeps popping up now and again in the Western and Russian expert and media circles.
There are few reasons to worry about the EU disintegration in the near future. So far the European Union has coped with its duty to maintain peace in Europe pretty well.
On April 18, 2011 the EU marked its 60th birthday, if it is counted from the date of the creation of the European Coal and Steel Community.
The EU’s longevity exceeds that of the League of Nations, which only gave Europe 21 year of peace, but still has to beat the Vienna Congress, which resulted in 99 peaceful years.
Perhaps, the EU’s secret of success lies in the fact that, in contrast to its predecessors, it was based on the economy rather than politics and new members could join this “peace treaty”. So, the list of “peacekeepers” enlarged, not being confined to a few winners.
But there are signs that the EU is going through the evolutionary crisis. It shows in the financial problems of the EU and the “enlargement fatigue”.
So, discredited are both the economic foundation, which is the biggest strength of the EU, and its “soft power” – dissemination of the democratic values and high quality of life by means of letting in new members.
Tough conditions of Greece’s and Ireland’s loans are not as bad a signal as the fact Greece could be made to leave the Eurozone. This could become a precedent and an argument for those who think that all decision-making in the EU is done by a number of strong countries.
In its turn, the process of the EU enlargement needs a “reset”. At the moment the system is “frozen”: Brussels does not name even the date of Iceland’s accession, which is deeply integrated in the EU on the legislative and economic level, so the minimal time of pre-accession talks and national legislation adaption is required.
Seven Balkan countries and Turkey are in the line, too, with Turkey’s 24-year-long wait not being too flattering for the image of the EU enlargement.
The argument about deeper rather than wider enlargement does not prove right, too. The example is the European External Action Service (EEAS), created after the Lisbon Treaty. The institution can hardly boast to be perfectly effective.
The EU Member States attempt to create a common foreign policy was compromised at the very start, when Lady Catherine Ashton became the EEAS head.
A bureaucrat with a weak foreign policy portfolio, she immediately declared that no big foreign policy agenda could be expected from her. And this was despite the fact the even before her appointment the EU diplomats had stressed that the formation of the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy position would depend on the personality of the first High Representative.
As a result, France and Great Britain manage the operation in Lybia, while the EEAS in general and Ms Ashton in particular run into heavy criticism from Brussels, Germany, Austria, Benelux countries and its native Great Britain.
As a matter of fact, thanks to the Lisbon treaty for the first time in the EU history the Member States determined the withdrawal procedure for the Union. So far no Member States expressed a wish to withdraw, but there was a precedent: in 1975 Great Britain held a referendum on the country’s succession from the then European Economic Community.
Famous Euro-optimist, Finnish Minister of Foreign Affair Alexander Stubb believes that the EU will cope with the existential crisis. The politician is convinced: the history of the EU is the history of crises, which the EU could always find a way to resolve.
I hope that he is right and side with his colleague, Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero: “[The EU] is not perfect but this is the best we have”.
Euroatlantist Diary: Yanukovich’s Secret Weapon
By Alyona Getmanchuk, director of the Institute of World Policy for “UKRAINSKA PRAVDA”The article is available only in Ukrainian.
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