24 October on the initiative of Slovak Foreign Policy Association and support of Friedrich Ebert Foundation a conference "EU Eastern policy in the light of the Slovak presidency of the European Council" was held in Bratislava. The conference was attended by experts and officials from Slovakia, Poland, Czech Republic, Germany, Great Britain, Norway, Finland, Ukraine, representatives of the European Commission, Russia. Delegates described the unclear prospects of relations with Russia in the context of the collapse of the European project of Kremlin. Instead, the European expert circles point though slow but constructive pro-European reforms and the dynamics of relations between Ukraine and the EU

President of the Center for Global Studies Strategy XXI Mykhailo Gonchar took part in one of the discussion panels devoted to the prospects and challenges of cooperation of the Visegrad Group and Ukraine in the energy sector. To download he main points of the speech in English.