Enlargement Candidate Members – initiative of the European Economic and Social Committee

Press center UCMC announce

Speakers: • Nadija Afanasieva, Ukrainian Institute for International Politics, chair of the Ukrainian side of CSP.
• Oliver Röpke, President of the EESC (online).
• Vasyl Andreyev, ECM, PROFBUD – Construction and Building Materials Industry Workers Union of Ukraine
• Sergii Moskvin, ECM, Ukrainian Capital Markets Association.
• Marcin Nowacki, EESC member, chair of the EU side of CSP, Vice-President of the Union of Entrepreneurs and Employers (ZPP) (online).
• Ivan Kulchytskyi, NGO Agency of European Innovations - Working group 6 "Science and technology, information society, education, training and youth, culture and sport" (online).
• Larysa Starikova, PO Analysis Centre AUU.
• Andris Gobins, EESC member, President of the European Movement – Latvia (online).
• Oleskandr Vozniuk, Human Rights Community of Disabled Persons (online).
• Oleksandr Ilkov, Director General of the Government Office for Coordination of European and Euro-Atlantic Integration.
• Mr Asier Santillan, Head of Section “Good Governance and Rule of Law”, EU Delegation to Ukraine.

Attention! In case of an air alert, visitors of the event can use the shelter located in the basement of the Ukrainian House ( Ukraine Crisis Media Center, Ukrainian House, 1st floor. 2 Khreshchatyk street, Kyiv 0100)

At the end of 2023, EESC President Oliver Röpke launched the initiative to establish the status of Enlargement Candidate Members to engage civil society representatives more actively in EESC activities. This is an honorary title that shows support and respect for the civil society representatives in the EU candidate countries without granting them EESC member status.

Questions for discussion:

  • Ukraine on the way to EU membership: the role and methods of influence of civil society through the EESC (Enlargement Candidate Members and EESC members)
  • Civil society engagement in the European integration process