14.00 - 15.00

Special Guest: Ołeksandr Mocyk,
Ambassador of Ukraine to the Republic of Poland

Introductory Speech
European Neighbourhood Policy - regonal experiences
Jaroslaw Reczek, Podkarpacki Voievodship Office, Rzeszów
European Choice of Ukraine
Taras Voznyak, Editor-in-Chief Magazine "Ji", Lviv

15.00 - 16.30

Orange revolution as an active nonviolence. Ukraine on its way to democratization and civil society
Sofiya Fedyna, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv

Ukraine: Internal Political Development and Idea of integration to the EU. Case study
Dr. Olena Podvorna, International Economic-Humanitarian University, Rivne

The Polish engagement towards the Eastern neighbours in the context of the European Neighbourhood Policy: The Orange Revolution in Ukraine
Christine Normann, Center for International Relations, Warsaw

Discussion

Coffee break

16.30 - 18.00

Information balance of Ukrainian power
Dr. Anton Shynkaruk, Rivne Institute of Slavonic Studies, Rivne

Europe and the Ukrainian Parliamentary Elections of 2006
Nathaniel Copsey, Sussex European Institute, University of Sussex

Ukraine's democratic model: Implementation, problems, perspectives
Günter Guggenberger, Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe (IDM), Vienna

Discussion

18.00 Dinner (Students' Club, University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszow)

8 June 2006, Rzeszow

Session 1: Civil society and social transformation in Ukraine
Moderator: Dr. Joanna Konieczna, University of Warsaw

9.00 - 10.30

Determinants of Ukrainian Political Orientation: Dynamics of people's response to ukrainization policies in the Odessa region and effects on domestic and foreign policies
Abel Polese, Institute of Theology and Liberal Arts of Odessa

National and languages minorities in Ukraine
Anna Wylegała, University of Warsaw

Discussion

Coffee break

Session 2: The Road to a Market Economy in Ukraine
Moderator: Dr. Jan Wielgohs, Frankfurt Institute for Transformation Studies

10.30 - 14.15

Customs Policy of Ukraine: development of the state and prospects of the entry in the EU
Olga Sakalosh, The European Post-Graduate College of Polish and Ukrainian Universities, Lublin

A Long, Hard Road to WTO. The ENP and Ukraine's Integration Into the World Trade System
Grzegorz Karpiuk, The University of Information Technology and Management, Rzeszow

"Coloured" regionalization?
Kacper Wańczyk, Jagiellonian University, Krakow

Agrarian sector of Ukraine: Investment Strategy of Development
Nataliya Bilyak, Lviv State Agrarian University

Evolution of competition policy of Ukraine according to integration into the EU
Yuliya Rosetska, Odessa State Economic University

Ukraine as a transit country for energetic resources to the EU
Maciej Jakubik, College of Europe, Natolin

Explaining Ukrainian energy-dependent economy and politics
Wojciech Konończuk, Stefan Batory Foundation, Warsaw

Financial aspects of EU-Ukraine relationships
Dr. Natalia Vadimovna Stukalo, Dnipropetrovsk National University

Discussion

14.15 - 15.15 Lunch

16.00 Departure for Krakow
20.00 Dinner (Cherubino Restaurant, Krakow, ul. Św. Tomasza 15)

9.00 - 10.00

Introductory speech
Bug or Don. The problem of the Eastern border of the European Union
Dr. Andrzej Szeptycki, Polish Institute of International Affairs, Warsaw

Session 1 - Beyond enlargement: EU, Ukraine and ENP
Moderator : Nathaniel Copsey, Sussex European Institute

10.00 - 11.50

The impact of enlargement on CFSP
Dr. Timm Beichelt, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder

Facing the challenges of the direct neighbourhood
Karolina Pomorska, Loughborough Univeristy

The role of the new member states in European policy towards Ukraine
Mathias A. Roth, Centre of International Studies, University of Cambridge

Discussion

Coffee break

Session 2 - ENP reconsidered - results and prospects
Moderator: Dr. Timm Beichelt, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder

12.00 - 13.15

Is the ENP the pre-ontological step towards a EU pre-accession policy for Ukraine?
Jimmy Milanese, University of Bradford, West Yorkshire

The ENP and Beyond: What Tools to Support Democratic Transformation of Ukraine?,
Iryna Solonenko, International Renaissance Foundation, Kyiv

ENP - EU, Israel and possible lessons for Ukraine
Evgeny Finkel, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Discussion

13.15 - 14.30 Lunch

Session 3 - New EU external border with Ukraine
Moderator: Grzegorz Gromadzki, Stefan Batory Foundation, Warsaw

14.30 - 16.15

Ukraine and the European Union External Border(s)
Jorrit Jelle Rijpma, European University Institute, Florence

The impact of enlargement on EU Immigration Policy towards the new neighbouring states: a case study on Ukraine
Dr. Mariella Franz, Brussels Office of Hanns Seidel Foundation

Area of Freedom, Security and Justice as a challenge both for Ukraine and for EU
Dr. Andrzej Graś, Office of Committee for European Integration, Warsaw

Discussion

Coffee break

Session 4 - Cases of Ukrainian bilateral relations
Moderator: Dr. Olena Pristayko, Center for Peace, Conversion and Foreign Policy of Ukraine, Kyiv

16.15 - 18.00

European Neighborhood or Near Abroad: overlapping spaces or conflicting visions of Ukraine
Vsevolod Samokhvalov, International Center for Black Sea Studies, Athens

Patterns of co-operation and conflict: the relations between Romania and Ukraine
Ruxandra Ivan, Free University of Brussels

The ENP and its Eastern aspects (Ukraine and Belarus)
Petr Hlavaček, Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Brno

Discussion

End of conference