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JMCE Workshop: “The Impact of the War in Ukraine on the EU and its Eastern Policy”

December 5, 2024 at 12:45 PM to 5:30 PM

Location:2220-2228 Richcraft Hall
Cost:Free

The Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence is pleased to host the workshop, “The Impact of the War in Ukraine on the EU and its Eastern Policy”.

Ӱԭ the workshop: European and Canadian experts will explore how Russia’s war on Ukraine is affecting the European Union, both in its domestic and foreign affairs, including enlargement, agricultural and energy policies, internal unity/disunity, transatlantic relations, and relations with neighbouring countries.

This workshop is an in-person event only. (Biographies available here.)

12:45PM Welcome Remarks:

  • Joan DeBardeleben, Chancellor’s Professor, Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, Ӱԭ University
  • , Ambassador of the European Union to Canada.

1:15-2:00PM Keynote Talk: “Balancing geopolitical and liberal agendas. The EU in pursuit of a new foreign policy in times of war” with , Professor and Chair in Global Politics, University of Groningen.

2:00-3:45PM Roundtable Discussion: The War, the EU’s Eastern Policy and Enlargement

Moderator: , Professor, Department of Political Science, McGill University

  • , Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University; 2024 Konrad Adenauer Visiting Scholar on Transatlantic Relations, Ӱԭ University, Transatlantic Relations.
  • , Sorbonne Nouvelle/Visiting Professor, College of Europe, Bordering and Rebordering.
  • , Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Moldova and the EU.
  • , Department of Political Science, University of Montreal, The EU and Georgia, Moldova.
  • , Department of Political Science, McGill University, The EU and Corruption in Ukraine.
  • David Sichinava, Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, Ӱԭ University, Public Opinion Ӱԭ the EU in Georgia and Armenia.

3:45-4:00PM Coffee break

4:00-5:30PM Roundtable Discussion: European Integration and the War: Impacts on EU policy and EU Unity

Chair: Moderator: Achim Hurrelmann, Department of Political Science, Ӱԭ University

  • Crina Viju-Miljusevic, Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, Ӱԭ University, EU Agricultural Policy and Ukraine.
  • Matúš Mišík, Department of Political Science, Comenius University Bratislava, Energy and EU Sanctions.
  • , Department of Political Science, McGill University, War Fatigue.
  • Joan DeBardeleben, Divergent Central/East European Member State Positions on the War.
  • Paul Goode, McMillan Chair in Russian Studies, Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, Ӱԭ University, Impact of Russian Disinformation.

5:30PM Closing comments: Joan DeBardeleben

Registration is now closed.

Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence activities are co-funded by the European Union and by Ӱԭ University.

This workshop draws on research supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.