The Yalta European Strategy (YES) Board on July 23, 2014 met in Brussels with President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso, EU Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighborhood Policy Štefan Füle and Deputy General Secretary of the European External Action Service Helga Schmid.
Chairman of the Board of Yalta European Strategy, President of Poland (1995–2005) Aleksander Kwasniewski announced Kyiv as the venue of the 11th Meeting of Yalta European Strategy (YES).
On Maidan, flowers and candles have replaced the cobblestones and barricades. They honor the heroes who fell one week ago for Ukraine. But new challenges are here for Ukraine, as well as for European Union and Russia, together.
Chairman of the Board of Yalta European Strategy Aleksander Kwasniewski is at the top of the annual ranking of "Top 10 Ukraine lobbyists in the world".
The time for ‘Ukraine fatigue’ is over – now East and West must work together.
Ukraine is a hair’s breadth away from signing the Association Agreement with the European Union, but the country still needs to fulfil several conditions, which are requisite in the EU’s opinion, stated the President of Poland (1995 - 2005), and Chairman of the YES Board, Alexander Kwaśniewski on Saturday in Livadia Palace in Yalta, summarizing the results of the 10th Annual Meeting of YES “Changing Ukraine in a Changing World: Factors of Success”.
The Vilnius Summit in November, at which Ukraine and the European Union may sign their Association Agreement is only the beginning of the journey. After that the country will need to prove its capacity to fulfill its new obligations, and the government will need to contain results-oriented people, stated Member of Parliament of Ukraine, Arseniy Yatsenyuk (“Batkivshchyna” faction).
Ukraine should be more democratic, improve the standards of market economy and implement a more effective social policy, said MP Serhiy Tigipko, Party of Regions faction, at the YES 10th Annual Meeting “Changing Ukraine in a Changing World: Factors of Success” on Saturday, at the Livadia Palace in Yalta.