[ACADEMIC WORKSHOP] EU’s promises: further integration and expansion, financing the reconstruction of Ukraine and allied shoring in Eastern Europe

8th November 2023, GMF Bucharest Office, “Casa Mica” Ceausescu Palace, Bucharest, Romania

Agenda

9:30-9:45 Participants meet in at GMF Bucharest Office

9:45- 10:00 Welcoming remarks (ASE, SciencePo, GMF)

10:00 – 11:15 Panel 1. Path dependencies of the EU integration process to date

• Laszlo Bruszt, CEU (online) Overcoming Divisive Integration by Upgrading Enlargement Governance - Lessons from the Previous Waves
• Jelena Dzankic, EUI (in-person)
• Visnja Vukoc, University of Viena (in-person)

11:15 – 11:30 Coffee break

11:30– 13:00 Panel 2. The EU Investment State and new financing mechanisms

• Matthias Thiemann, SciencePo (online)
• Nils Ollerich, EUI (in-person)
• Dan Mocanu (online)
• Vera Scepanovic, Leiden University (online)

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 15:00 Conversation: Transformation of the EU in the context of the war in Ukraine

• Daniel Kelemen, Georgetown University (presenter - online)
• Rachel Epstein, Denver University (discussant – in person)

15:00 – 16:30 Panel 3. Donor coordination and the future of recovery and reconstruction in Ukraine and the broader region

• Marius Ghincea, EUI (in-person)
• Clara Volintiru, ASE (in-person)
• Edit Zgut, CEU (in-person)

16:30 – 17:00 Tea break

17:00 – 18:30 Panel 4. Policy Discussions – Institutional perspectives

• Natalia Gavrilita (former PM in the Republic of Moldova) (in-person),
• Benedikt Hermann (EC) (in person),
• Ievgeniia Bodnya (Reform Delivery Office - advisory body to Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers) (in person),
• Mihai Precup (Economic Advisor to PM, former secretary of state in the MFP) (in person),
• Angela Carabas (Ministry of Public Finances) (in person).

On site contact - phone number: Laurentiu Plesca, GMF Program Assistant, BST: +40 799 098 861;