Agenda

Welcome Reception, Oreanda Hotel, Yalta

Opening of the Yalta Annual Meeting

Rt Hon Stephen Byers, MP, Chairman of the Board of YES
Victor Pinchuk, Founder and Member of the Board of YES

Plenary session: The New World Economic Setup and Impact on Ukraine

What are the new worldwide economic challenges? What can be the consequences of the sub-prime crisis, of the growing influence of the BRICS, and the commodity price increase for Europe and Ukraine? What is the connection between the global economic trends and the inflation in Ukraine?

Moderator: Richard Haass
Keynote speaker: Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Managing Director of the IMF

Panel:
Anders Aslund, Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics
Leszek Balcerowicz, Chairman of the Central Bank of Poland (2001–2007)
Klaus Mangold, Chairman, East–West Committee of German Industry, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Bank Rothschild
Jean Pisani-Ferry, Director of Bruegel
Petro Poroshenko, Chairman of the Supervisory board of the National Bank of Ukraine

Coffee break

Plenary session: The Future of the European Union

What will be the impact of the Irish “No” vote and what is the future of the Lisbon treaty? What will be the project of the EU for the coming 20 years, its strategic orientations, and its future frontiers? What should be its foreign, security and defense policy? What will be the consequences for Ukraine?

Moderator: Richard Haass
Panel:
Elmar Brok, Member of the European Parliament
Charles Grant, Director, Centre for European Reform
Mario David, MP, Vice President of the EPP, Member of the Board of YES
Olivier Duhamel, Professor, Paris Institute of Political Studies
Mikulas Dzurinda, Prime Minister of Slovakia (1998–2006)
Marek Siwiec, Vice President of the European Parliament, Member of the Board of YES

Lunch

Three parallel discussion sessions

Session 1: Russia, Ukraine and the EU: the Gas Issue
Moderator: Alexander Rahr, Programme Director, German Council on Foreign Relations, Member of the Board of YES
Speakers:
Mykhailo Honchar, Energy Transparency programme director, Nomos Centre
Oleksandr Chalyi, Deputy Head of the Secretariat of the President of Ukraine
Pirkka Tapiola, Senior Advisor to the EU High Commissioner for CFSP

Session 2: The global food crisis: a challenge for Ukraine
Moderator: Anna Derevianko, Executive Director of the European Business Association
Speakers:
Oleksander Paskhaver, Director of the Center for Economic Studies
Vladimir Bernstein, Managing Director of Icon Private Equity Fund

Session 3: Euro 2012 and infrastructural investment
Moderators:
Terrence Brown, Executive Director of the EIB, member of the board of the EBRD
Panel:
Eva Srejber, Vice President of the EIB
Jean-Pierre Saltiel, member of the board of YES
Andriy Sadovyi, Mayor of Lviv

Coffee break

Plenary session: The future Free Trade Area between EU and Ukraine

To what extend can a deep FTA help the integration of Ukraine in the EU? What are the expectations in Ukraine and the EU? What is at stake? How to proceed?

Moderator: Richard Haass
Panel:
Mykola Azarov, Member of Parliament of Ukraine
Peter Balas, Deputy Director-General of DG Trade, EU Commission
Igor Burakovsky, Director, Institute for Economic Research and Political Consultations
Hryhory Nemyria, Vice-Prime Minister of Ukraine
Jean-Pierre Saltiel, Member of the Board of YES

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Plenary session: Elections in Russia and the USA: impact on Ukraine and Europe

What will be the foreign policy of the new Russian and American leadership over the coming years? How will it impact their relationship with the European Union and Ukraine, and EU’s further enlargement?

Moderator: Richard Haass
Panel:
Sergey Glaziev, Director, Institute for New Economy, member of the 1st, 3rd and 4th Russian State Duma
Kostyantyn Gryshchenko, Ambassador to the Russian Federation and First Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine
Alexander Rahr, Programme Director, German Council on Foreign Relations, member of the Board of YES
Karl Rove, Former Deputy Chief of Staff to George W. Bush and Chief Strategist for Bush's Presidential Campaigns
Bob Shrum, political consultant and Senior Fellow, Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University

Coffee break

Plenary session: Building Democracy and Market Economy in the Black Sea Region

What are the lessons to be learnt from the transitions in the Black Sea Region? How can they inspire their neighboring countries and Ukraine? What is the room for regional cooperation? What should be the EU policy?

Moderator: Richard Haass
Keynote speaker: Mikhail Saakashvili, President of Georgia
Panel:
Raissa Bohatyreva, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine
Valery Chalyi, Director for International Programmes, Ukrainian Center for Economic and
Political Studies (Razumkov Center)
Aleksander Kwasniewski, President of Poland (1995–2005), Member of the Board of YES
Arseniy Yatseniuk, Speaker of Parliament of Ukraine

Lunch

Plenary session: Ukraine Agenda 2020

What are the progresses made by Ukraine over the last 4 years? What are the challenges ahead? What is the strategy of the main Ukrainian political forces to reform the country and move ahead toward the EU? Will Ukraine succeed in preparing itself to join the EU by 2020 as proposed by YES?

Chair: Aleksander Kwasniewski, President of Poland (1995–2005), Member of the Board of YES
Panel:
Hryhory Nemyria, Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine, Yulia Tymoshenko Block
Leonid Kozhara, Party of Regions of Ukraine
Kseniya Lyapina, Member of Parliament of Ukraine,” Our Ukraine”
Arseniy Yatseniuk, Speaker of Parliament of Ukraine

Coffee break

Plenary session: A Vision For Europe and Ukraine

Moderator: Richard Haass
Introductory remarks: Victor Pinchuk, Founder and Member of the Board of YES

Keynote speaker: Tony Blair, UK Prime Minister (1997–2007)

O & A

Closing of the 5th Annual Meeting

Rt Hon Stephen Byers, MP, Chairman of the Board of YES
Victor Pinchuk, founder and member of the board of YES

Conference photo