Pavlo Sheremeta was one of the Lead Discussant at the Carnegie Europe and Centre for Eastern Studies seminar

KSE President Pavlo Sheremeta was one of the Lead Discussant at the Carnegie Europe and Centre for Eastern Studies seminar titled “Why do Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries matter to the EU?” held on March 11 at Brussels and devoted to the challenges facing the EU in its eastern policy. Pavlo Sheremeta participated in the first panel session on “Between European and Euro-Asian Integration: A false dilemma or real choice?.”

“On the issue is European and Euro-Asian integration a real choice for Ukraine, my answer is that the real dilemma for Ukraine is to modernize or not. EU will really be interested only in a viable, dynamic, democratic Ukraine with inclusive political and economic systems,” – Mr. Sheremeta says.

The seminar held by Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW) and Carnegie Europe, in co-operation with the Permanent Representation of the Republic of Poland to the European Union, gathered  approximately twenty experts from Europe and EaP countries to analyse the achievements of—and challenges still facing—the EU’s Eastern Partnership, considering recent social, political, and economic shifts in EaP countries, as well as the role of the euro crisis in the EU’s commitment toward the creation of a stable neighbourhood to the east of the EU.

The event brought together the representatives of Open Society European Policy Institute (Brussels), Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies (Stockholm), Georgian Institute for Strategic Studies (Tibilisi) and other respective policy advice institutions.