05 August 2014
Open Call for Ukrainian Students to Take Part in the 11th YES Annual Meeting
05 August 2014

Open Call for Ukrainian Students to Take Part in the 11th YES Annual Meeting

The Victor Pinchuk Foundation and the Yalta European Strategy (YES) announce an open competition for Ukrainian students of 3-6 courses to participate in the 11th YES Annual Meeting to be held in Kyiv...
The Board of Yalta European Strategy (YES) visited Brussels  for meetings with EU officials
24 July 2014

The Board of Yalta European Strategy (YES) visited Brussels for meetings with EU officials

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.

Aleksander Kwasniewski: the 11th YES Meeting is to be held in Kyiv, a city which is the symbol of the hopes and dreams of Ukrainians
27 March 2014

Aleksander Kwasniewski: the 11th YES Meeting is to be held in Kyiv, a city which is the symbol of the hopes and dreams of Ukrainians

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).

1 March 2014

YES Board statement - Ukraine: We must look forward

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 YES Aleksander Kwasniewski is rated 1st in the list of “Top 10 Ukraine’s Promoters in the World”
5 February 2014

Chairman of the Board of YES Aleksander Kwasniewski is rated 1st in the list of “Top 10 Ukraine’s Promoters in the World”

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".

31 January 2014

Letter to the Editor of the FT.com from the Board of Yalta European Strategy (YES)

The time for ‘Ukraine fatigue’ is over – now East and West must work together.

21 September 2013

Ukraine has never been so close to the EU as it is now – Alexander Kwaśniewski

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”.

21 September 2013

Signing the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement is only the beginning of the journey - Arseniy Yatsenyuk

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).

21 September 2013

Tigipko names the three biggest issues for Ukraine

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.

Richard Branson
Richard Branson
Founder and Chairman, Virgin Group, 9th YES Annual Meeting, 2012
«The problem of capitalism is that it does result in the extreme wealth of a few people. If those people are benevolent people, they’ll use that wealth constructively; they’ll reinvest it and do great things»