Professor Bronislaw Geremek MEP, a major figure in the contemporary history of his native Poland and of Europe, died 13 July, aged 76. "This is a sad day for the European Parliament" - its President Hans-Gert Pöttering said on learning of the news. Mr Geremek was a leading figure in the anti-Communist Solidarity movement and later served as Poland’s Foreign Minister. Elected to the European Parliament in 2004 he served on both the Foreign and Constitutional Affairs Committees.  [more]

On Friday, 27 June 2008 in Brussels, the Energy Community Ministerial Council addressed key issues for the functioning of electricity markets in South-East Europe. At this occasion, Commissioner Piebalgs declared: "Last week the European Council reiterated its full support for the European perspective of the Western Balkans and the importance of regional cooperation: the Energy Community is becoming a success story in this respect, but efforts should be pursued."  [more]

On the 12 of June 2008 in Kiev a round table on “European Integration of Ukraine: Role of Youth” was held. The aim of this round table was to elaborate specific ideas and ways that would help youth organizations in Ukraine to reinforce the process European integration in Ukraine. European Association of Ukrainians (Brussels) and Network of Young Publishers “A5” (Odesa-Kiev) were the organizers of the event.  [more]

To your attention is a Resolution of a round table “European Integration of Ukraine: role of youth”, that was held in Kiev on the 12th of June 2008. This resolution contains essential suggestions as to youth participant in processes of eurointegration, and therefore were discussed and supported by participants of the round table.  [more]

Former Polish President Kwaśniewski ends EBRD Annual Meeting with passionate plea for further European integration. No disrespect to the Ukraine’s corps diplomatique, but the country’s arguably best ambassador is a foreigner: The former President of Poland, Aleksander Kwaśniewski, ended the EBRD Annual Meeting 2008 in Kiev with a passionate plea for the full integration of Ukraine into European structures. Delivering the traditional Jacques de Larosière-Lecture he said: “Our President Piłsudski once said: No free Poland without a free Ukraine. 90 years on the same is true for all Europe.”  [more]

The EBRD today agreed to a donation of €135 million to support international efforts to clean up the site of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the scene in 1986 of the world’s worst civilian nuclear power disaster. The EBRD contribution is a further step in the efforts by the international community to make the Chernobyl site safe.  [more]

In London President Victor Yushchenko took part in opening an exhibition “Executed by famine: unknown genocide against Ukrainian nation” dedicated to 75th anniversary of the Great Famine in Ukraine, according to the President`s press-office.  [more]

On May 16 of the year 2008, Ukraine became the full-fledged 152nd member of the World Trade Organization. The Protocol on Ukraine’s joining the Marrakech Agreement on creating WTO, ratified by the Verkhovna Rada on April 10 of 2008, joined into force on May 16.  [more]

The EBRD will hold its Annual Meeting in Kiev on 18-19 May, returning to the Ukrainian capital 10 years after it last staged a meeting there in 1998. Discussions during the two-day session will focus on the progress in the whole EBRD region over the last decade, and especially in Ukraine which in that period has experienced a peaceful political revolution that led to democracy.  [more]

Roundtable “Ukraine-EU: Energy Security Issue” was organised in Brussels by European Association of Ukrainians. On demand of Ukrainian NGOs representatives some amendments were introduced into the text of the concluding statement, adopted by roundtable participants. UNIAN was told about this by roundtable participants.  [more]