On October 23, Mission of Ukraine to the EU in cooperation with Ukrainian World Congress held a video conference “EU-Ukraine Summit: the road ahead”.

Speakers of the event were:

• Olha Stefanishyna, Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine
• Katariná Mathernova, Deputy Director-General for Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations
• Vadym Halaychuk, Deputy Chairperson of Verkhovna Rada Committee on European Integration (Head of Ukraine Parliament's Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Association Committee)
• Viola Von Cramon, Member of the European Parliament
• Michael Gahler, Member of the European Parliament
• Petras Auštrevičius, Member of the European Parliament
• Paul Grod, Ukrainian World Congress President

The discussion was moderated by Orysia Lutsevych, Head and Research Fellow, Ukraine Forum, Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House.

The discussion focused on the following topics:

• Outcomes of the EU-Ukraine Summit of October 6
• Future vision for the EU-Ukraine bilateral relations
• EU-Ukraine Summit: view from the Parliaments
• Civil society engagement in Ukraine’s European integration

Main messages from video conference “EU-Ukraine Summit: the road ahead”:

• Olha Stefanishyna, Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine: the Ukraine-EU Summit of October 6 demonstrated a strong personal commitment and outreach of the leaders. We reached an important political agreement on developing further and updating our cooperation in many areas. On the other hand, Ukraine has been recognized as an important contributor to the implementation of the European Green Deal agenda.
• Katariná Mathernova, Deputy Director-General for Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations: the EU-Ukraine Summit was a success. It was filled with many concrete results. In particular, on update of the Annexes/Association Agreement, on ACAA agreement, Green deal engagement, digital transformation, cyber security cooperation.
• Vadym Halaychuk, Deputy Chairperson of Verkhovna Rada Committee on European Integration: Ukraine’s course towards the EU is irreversible. The Association Agreement remains our framework for reforms. The Ukraine-EU summit underlined importance to develop further our trade/sectoral/green deal cooperation. Joint statement had also a strong language on the Russian aggression and support to Ukraine. The results of the Summit bring us forward in developing our cooperation.
• Witold Waszczykowski, Member of the European Parliament: in 2014 at the Maidan, Ukraine paid an enormous price. We cannot talk about the crisis in Ukraine, there is a war between Ukraine and Russia. The accession prospect is important for Ukraine and further reforms in Ukraine.
• Petras Auštrevičius, Member of the European Parliament, on the importance to advance further the Ukraine-EU cooperation: we need further broad political dialog, gradual integration into the EU single market, more economic and sectoral cooperation, we also need the next level of defense and security cooperation.

Video conference “EU-Ukraine Summit: the road ahead” took place on October 23 in a follow-up to the EU-Ukraine Summit of October 6.

Watch the whole discussion on our YouTube: https://youtu.be/0XUyVe0VciY.