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SUMMARY:ECR Eastern Partnership Summit
DESCRIPTION:On Tuesday 1 and Wednesday 2 March 2022\, the ECR Group will host recognised experts in the fields of security\, economy\, democratisation and European integration\, as well as current and former decision-makers from the Eastern Partnership region for the first ECR Eastern Partnership Summit\, titled ‘Eastern Partnership – Europe as a civilisational choice’. \nThe summit will focus on the questions: ‘What can the EU offer to the Eastern Neighbourhood countries?’ and ‘What added-value could the Eastern Neighbourhood countries bring to the EU with their gradual integration?’.\n The first panel will aim to carry out a general assessment of EU policies in the region in recent years and their influence on solving existing problems while the second panel will address a more broadly the long-term impact of the ongoing integration process with the Eastern Neighbourhood countries on the EU\, paying particular attention to the implications that this gradual opening towards the East might have for European economy\, security and defence policy\, as well as European demography\, societies and values. Speakers will try to define the role that Eastern Partnership countries have to play in the future of Europe. \nEurope is not only limited to the European Union\, nor should these two terms be treated as synonymous. That is why\, in order to make this reflexion genuinely European\, the ECR Group has decided to include in the debate on the future of Europe the perspectives of those countries aspiring to membership to or closer integration with the European Union\, i.e. those from the Eastern Partnership region and the Western Balkans. We should use the opportunity offered by the Conference on the Future of Europe to make the voice of all Europeans heard. \nLive-streamed in English\, Polish and Russian on the ECR Group’s YouTube channel\, the broadcast will feature ECR Group Co-Chairmen Professor Ryszard Legutko and Raffaele Fitto; President of the ECR Institutional Policy Working Group Prof Zdzisław Krasnodębski; ECR MEPs Alexandr Vondra\, Witold Waszczykowski and Anna Fotyga; and distinguished guests as Mr Ostap Semerak\, former Minister of Ecology of Ukraine; Mr Giorgi Baramidze\, former Deputy Prime Minister and State Minister for Euro-Atlantic Integration of Georgia and Mr Franak Viačorka\, Senior Advisor to Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya\, leader of the Belarussian opposition. \nProgramme \nOpening: Tuesday @ 16:30 CET \n\nECR Co-Chairman Professor Ryszard Legutko\, MEP\nProfessor Zdzisław Krasnodębski\, MEP\, Chair of the ECR Working Group on Institutional Reform\nMr Giorgi Baramidze\, former Deputy Prime Minister and State Minister for Euro-Atlantic Integration of Georgia\nMs Anna Fotyga\, MEP\, former chair of the EP Subcommittee on Security and Defence\, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland\n\nPanel I: ‘What can the EU offer to the Eastern Neighbourhood countries?’: Tuesday @ 17:00 CET \nIntroductory remarks \n\nMr Ostap Semerak\, former Minister of Ecology of Ukraine\nProfessor Zdzisław Krasnodębski\, MEP\, Chair of the ECR Working Group on Institutional Reform\n\nExpert discussion \n\nMr Tevan Poghosyan\, president\, International Center for Human Development\, former Armenian MP\nDr Tinatin Akhvlediani\, research fellow\, Centre for European Policy Studies\nMr Franak Viačorka\, Senior Advisor to Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya\, leader of the Belarussian opposition\nMs Veronika Movchan\, Academic Director\, Head of the Center for Economic Studies\, Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting\nDr Witold Waszczykowski\, MEP\, Chair of the EP Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Association Committee\, First Vice-Chair of the EP Committee on Foreign Affairs\, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland\nDr Alexandr Vondra\, MEP\, former Minister of Foreign Affairs\, Minister of Defence and Deputy Prime Minister for European Affairs of the Czech Republic\n\nPanel II: ‘What added-value could the Eastern Neighbourhood countries bring to the EU with their gradual integration?’: Wednesday @ 10:00 CET \nIntroductory remarks \n\nMr Luc Pierre Devigne\, Deputy Managing Director for Europe and Central Asia\, Director for Russia\, Eastern Partnership\, Central Asia and OSCE\, EEAS\nProfessor Zdzisław Krasnodębski\, MEP\, Chair of the ECR Working Group on Institutional Reform\n\nExpert discussion \n\nProfessor Ghia Nodia\, political scientist\, Caucus Institute for Peace\, Democracy and Development\, former Minister of Education and Science of Georgia\nMr Taras Voznyak\, political and cultural scientist\, director of the Lviv National Art Gallery\, editor-in-chief of Independent Cultural Journal Ї\nDr Vadim Pistrinciuc\, sociologist\, former Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Protection\, former Moldovan MP\nProfessor Elena Korosteleva\, political scientist\, University of Kent\nMr Hermann Tertsch\, MEP\, Member of the EP Foreign Affairs Committee\n\nClosing remarks: Wednesday @ 11:15 CET \n\nECR Co-Chairman Raffaele Fitto\, MEP\nProfessor Zdzisław Krasnodębski\, MEP\, Chair of the ECR Working Group on Institutional Reform\n\nThe show will be hosted by Milena Milotinova\, Anchor of “Brussels 1 TV Show”\, BULGARIA ON AIR TV. \nThe event will be streamed with live interpretations in English\, Polish and Russian on the ECR Group’s YouTube channel. \nBroadcast live: Tuesday @ 16:30 – 18:30 CET & Wednesday @ 10:00 – 12:15 CET
URL:https://ecrgroup.eu/event/ecr_eastern_neighbourhood_summit/
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SUMMARY:Their only crime was not being Russian: The Circassian Genocide
DESCRIPTION:The Circassian genocide\, or The Tlapserykh\, was the 19th century Russian Empire’s systematic extermination\, ethnic cleansing and forced expulsion of up to 97 percent of the north Caucasus Mountain’s indigenous Circassians from their ancestral lands. \nThe almost total annihilation of this ancient\, pre-Indo European people from lands they had inhabited for millennia was modern Europe’s first genocide. This was an example of the now infamous “Russian Way of War” which the world is now watching with horror\, as this infamous strategy is exposed in all of its sickening brutality in Ukraine today. In the case of the Circassians\, once the largest ethnic group in the northern Caucasus\, this extermination was so complete that few today know this nation even existed. \nGenerations after the loss of their primordial homeland and hundreds of thousands of their men\, women and children to the Russian invaders\, the Circassians of today are fighting for the right to return to their beloved mountain homeland. In 2011\, lawmakers in Georgia recognized the mass deportation and killing of ethnic Circassians by Tsarist Russia as genocide. Every year on May 21st\, the surviving Circassians commemorate the Circassian Genocide. Please join us for a discussion on this genocide that has been kept hidden for decades and sadly removed the name of the ancient Circassians from most of the world’s conscience. We will have a panel of experts\, historians\, journalists and politicians to discuss this Tsarist era “Special Military Operation” from its origins in the extermination of the Circassians in their lost sacred town of Sochi (later used for Putin’s showcase of Russian nationalism in the winter Olympics) to the sickening massacres of Bucha\, Mariuopol and elsewhere in Ukraine today. \nPanellists: \nFatima Tlis is a Voice of America journalist in Washington\, D.C. Fatima helped found the VOA anti-disinformation site Polygraph.info. Polygraph launched in 2016 with a  focus on Russia\, though the site now covers China and oppressive regimes in other parts of Asia\, Latin America\, Africa and the Mideast. Fatima\, an ethnic Circassian\, previously reported for The Associated Press on the turbulent situation in her home region of the North Caucasus. In 2007\, the United States granted Fatima asylum after series of threats and attacks on her by Russian security services. Fatima was actively involved in the initiative that led to the recognition of the Circassian Genocide by Georgia.  \nJanusz Bugajski is a Senior Fellow at the Jamestown Foundation in Washington DC. He has authored 20 books on Europe\, Russia\, and trans-Atlantic relations. His latest book is entitled Failed State: Planning for Russia’s Rupture (2022). Recent books include Eurasian Disunion: Russia’s Vulnerable Flanks (with Margarita Assenova) (2016); Conflict Zones: North Caucasus and Western Balkans Compared (2014); Return of the Balkans: Challenges to European Integration and U.S. Disengagement (2013); and Georgian Lessons: Conflicting Russian and Western Interests in the Wider Europe (2010). Bugajski has been a consultant for the U.S. Department of Defense\, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)\, and a course chair for South Central Europe Area Studies at the Foreign Service Institute\, U.S. Department of State. He has testified before several Congressional Committees\, including: Helsinki Commission\, Senate Foreign Relations\, Senate Armed Services\, House Foreign Affairs\, and House Defense Appropriations.He is also a columnist or contributor to media outlets in the United States\, the United Kingdom\, Albania\, Bosnia-Hercegovina\, Bulgaria\, Croatia\, Georgia\, Kosova\, and Ukraine. \nNugzar Tsiklauri is currently a Member of the Political Council of the United National Movement\, the largest opposition party in Georgia. Mr. Tsiklauri is a philologist by specialty. At the end of 1980s\, he was actively involved in the national movement for Georgia’s independence from the Soviet Union. In the 1990s he was a journalist at “Free Georgia” newspaper. In 2000-2006\, Mr. Tsiklauri was a Director of a Publishing House Litera\, and in 2006-2008\, the Director of the Publishing House of Tbilisi State University. Mr. Tsiklauri was a Member of the Parliament of Georgia for two terms. In 2008-2012\, he was a Chair of the Committee of Diaspora and Caucasus Issues. During 2012- 2016\, he was a Deputy Chair of the Committee of Diaspora and Caucasus Issues. Mr. Tsiklauri lived in Chechnya and Ingushia during 1992- 1993. He had a close contact with the 1st President of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia\, Presidents of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria Dzhokhar Dudaev and Aslan Maskhadov. In 2011\, Mr. Tsiklauri initiated a resolution adopted by the Parliament of Georgia on Circassian genocide.  \nBrian Glyn Williams (remotely) is tenured Full Professor of Islamic History at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth and formerly taught at the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies. He is author of seven field research-based books on ethnicity\, warfare and terrorism in Eurasia. These include his most recent book with Oxford University Press\, The Crimean Tatars. From Soviet Genocide to Putin’s Conquest\, as well as an earlier book Inferno in Chechnya about the Russian Chechen Wars\, from the Tsarist period to Putin’s era. Dr. Williams is regular commentator on news venues ranging from CNN and BBC to Turkish Radio TV and has his work and articles appear in the New York Times\, Times of London\, Washington Post\, Time Magazine\, and Newsweek. He is also a regular writer for such journals as The Huffington Post\, West Point’s Counter Terrorism Center Sentinel and History News Network. He has extensive fieldwork in war zones ranging from Afghanistan and Iraq to Crimea and Bosnia and speaks Russian and Turkish. He has written and spoken on the Circassian genocide in such venues as CNN and the Huffington Post. For his articles\, books\, CV and images from his fieldwork in Eurasia\, see his website at: brianglynwilliams.com
URL:https://ecrgroup.eu/event/their_only_crime_was_not_being_russian_the_circassian_genocide/
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SUMMARY:The French EU Council Presidency\, European Security\, and the EU Mediated Georgian-Russian Cease-Fire
DESCRIPTION:The French EU Council Presidency\, European Security\, and the EU Mediated Georgian-Russian Cease-Fire Agreement of 2008. Current State and the Way Forward \nNow\, when Ukraine is facing a full-scale aggression by the Russian Federation\, it is pertinent to focus once more on the details of the events of 2008. Batu Kutelia and Vasil Sikharulidze\, who were at the helm of the Ministry of Defence in 2008\, and are some the most credible witnesses of these events\, prepared a report in which they combined their political experience\, personal courage and analytical skills. \nThe French Presidency\, but also the collective West\, should draw conclusions from the 2008 War and ceasefire negotiations in order to unconditionally and permanently stop the Russian aggressor.  \nPlease join us on Wednesday 23rd March 2022 at 14h00 to discuss the report: The French EU Council Presidency\, European Security\, and the EU Mediated Georgian-Russian Cease-Fire Agreement of 2008. Current State and the Way Forward. \nThe presentation of the report will be web-streamed on Twitter.
URL:https://ecrgroup.eu/event/the_french_eu_council_presidency_european_security_and_the_eu_mediated_geor/
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SUMMARY:ECR Western Balkans Summit
DESCRIPTION:Europe as a Civilisational Choice \nOn Tuesday 29 March and Wednesday 30 March 2022\, the ECR Group will host recognised experts in the fields of security\, economy\, democratisation and European integration\, as well as current and former decision-makers from the Western Balkans region\, for the Summit: ‘Western Balkans – Europe as a civilisational choice’. Albania\, Bosnia and Herzegovina\, North Macedonia\, Montenegro\, Kosovo and Serbia all have a prospect to join the European Union. The summit will focus on the issues of foreign interference and disinformation\, and the processes of EU enlargement and integration as opportunities for countries in the region to face up to current challenges – all this in the context of the ongoing debate on the future of Europe. \nThe first panel will carry out a general assessment of the state of play with regards to foreign interference and disinformation. Situated at the geopolitical crossroads between Europe and Asia\, the Western Balkan countries are prone to being exposed to foreign disinformation campaigns due to the overlapping interests of external powers. The region is constantly facing explicit acts of political pressure from countries like Russia\, China\, Iran and others. Any attempt to destabilise today’s fragile political balance poses a threat not only to the Western Balkans\, but to the EU as well. \nIn the second panel\, experts will discuss EU enlargement as an opportunity to overcome the challenges faced by the region. The Western Balkans are undeniably an integral part of Europe – culturally\, historically and geographically. On the other hand\, years after the first countries applied for EU accession\, the process has stalled. What are the main obstacles? What benefits would come of granting EU membership to the Western Balkan countries? What would be the impact on the future of Europe\, in terms of geopolitics and security\, economy\, culture and demography? \nSpeakers will try to define the role that Western Balkans countries might play in the future of Europe. \nEurope is not just the European Union\, and nor should these two terms be used synonymously. The ECR Group believes that we should use the opportunity offered by the Conference on the Future of Europe to make the voice of all Europeans heard. \nLive-streamed in English\, on the ECR Group’s YouTube and Twitter channels\, the broadcast will feature ECR Group Co-Chairmen Prof Ryszard Legutko and Raffaele Fitto; President of the ECR Institutional Policy Working Group Prof Zdzisław Krasnodębski; ECR MEPs Angel Dzhambazki\, Lars Patrick Berg\, Assita Kanko and Ladislav Ilcic; and distinguished guests: Ms Majlinda Bregu\, Secretary General of the Regional Cooperation Council and former Minister of European Integration of Albania; Mr Haki Abazi MP Assembly of the Republic of Kosovo\, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora; and Ms Zorka Kordić\, Chief Negotiator for the EU Accession of Montenegro. \nProgramme \nOpening: Tuesday 29 March @ 16:30 CET \n\nECR Co-Chairman Raffaele Fitto MEP\nProf Zdzisław Krasnodębski MEP\, Chair of the ECR Working Group on Institutional Reform\nMr Angel Dzhambazki MEP\, Chair\, ECR Working Group on Western Balkans\n\nPanel I: ‘Foreign interference and disinformation in the Western Balkans’ \nIntroductory remarks \n\nMs Zorka Kordić\, Chief Negotiator for the EU Accession of Montenegro\nMr Angel Dzhambazki MEP\, Chair\, ECR Working Group on Western Balkans\n\nExpert discussion \n\nMr Milan Jovanović\, Analyst\, Digital Forensic Research Center\, Montenegro\nMr Drizan Shala\, National Security Expert\, Institute for the Rapprochement of Inter-Ethnic Relations in Kosovo\nMs Dominika Cosić\, journalist and author\, TVP correspondent in Brussels\nMr Lars Patrick Berg MEP\nMr Angel Dzhambazki MEP\, Chair\, ECR Working Group on Western Balkans\n\nPanel II: ‘EU enlargement process as an opportunity to counter the challenges in the Western Balkans’: Wednesday 30 March @ 10:00 CET \nIntroductory remarks \n\nMs Majlinda Bregu\, Secretary General\, Regional Cooperation Council\nProf Zdzisław Krasnodębski MEP\, Chair of the ECR Working Group on Institutional Reform\n\nExpert discussion \n\nDr Anton Panchev\, Department of Balkan Studies\, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”\nMr Haki Abazi MP\, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora\, Assembly of the Republic of Kosovo\nMr Gjergji Vurmo\, Program Director\, Institute for Mediation and Democracy\, Albania\nMs Assita Kanko MEP\, Member of the European Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee\, ECR Shadow Rapporteur on Albania\nMr Ladislav Ilcić MEP\, Member of the European Parliament Delegation for relations with Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo\n\nClosing remarks: Wednesday @ 11:15 CET \n\nECR Co-Chairman Prof Ryszard Legutko\, MEP\nProf Zdzisław Krasnodębski MEP\, Chair of the ECR Working Group on Institutional Reform\nMr Angel Dzhambazki MEP\, Chair\, ECR Working Group on Western Balkans\n\nThe show will be hosted by Milena Milotinova\, presenter of the “Brussels 1 TV Show”\, BULGARIA ON AIR TV.
URL:https://ecrgroup.eu/event/ecr_western_balkans_summit/
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