The EU – Ukraine Association Agreement: Implications for the Slovak-Ukrainian Cross-Border Cooperation

Ten years of the Eastern Partnership: achievements and prospects
 

Venue: Hall of the Evangelical College (address: Hlavná 137, 080 01 Prešov)
Date: 21-23 October 2019
Organizers: Institute of Political Sciences (Faculty of Arts, University of Prešov) and the the Research Center of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association (RC SFPA)
Languages: English and Slovak (with simultaneous translation)
Support: This conference is supported by the Slovak Research and Development Agency within the research project (no. APVV-15-0369), the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of SR and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation
 

Aim: The main aim of the conference is to discuss findings of the research project entitled “Impact of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement on the Slovak-Ukrainian Cross-Border Cooperation” that has been implemented by the Institute of Political Sciences (IPOL - Faculty of Arts, University of Prešov) with the support of the Slovak Research and Development Agency (project no. APVV-15-0369). The project aimed at identifying impacts of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement (AA) on the Slovak-Ukrainian Cross-Border Cooperation (SK-UA CBC). It looked for opportunities and limits for SK-UA CBC brought on by, first, changing institutional framework for relations between the EU with Ukraine under the provisions of AA (supranational level); second, governmental policies and relations between Slovakia and Ukraine (national level); and third, existing practices of SK-UA CBC implemented by regional and local actors. Since the Eastern Partnership creates strategic supranational framework for further development of cross-border cooperation on external border of the EU, including on national and regional/local levels, the conference will pay special attention to evaluation of the current state of the Eastern Partnership ten years after its launch, including its up-to-date achievements and post-2020 scenarios.

Detailed program (agenda) of the conference (PDF format) is available here.