Ukraine - Europe: dialogue on justice 2.0

Kyiv, CEC Parkovy

Concept

The purpose of the conference is to establish links with European partners for productive dialogue and solving problems of development of a fair judicial system, assessment of the current state of judicial reform, identify causes of judges' staffing shortage, ensuring the independence of judges from political influence, identifying a standard model of reforming the judicial system of Ukraine, discussion of international experience on how the involvement of foreign representatives affects the judicial system in the country. To do so, a meeting in the form of a teleconference between European representatives and Ukrainian deputies, judges, lawyers, human rights defenders, and representatives of specialised organisations.

Preparation

  • Program design;

  • Writing texts (announcements, articles, news);

  • Choosing a day (so that MEPs can come on a day when there is a committee meeting in the afternoon, not a plenary meeting);

  • Choice of location (CEC "Parkovy", Press Club - Brussels);

  • Audience (lawyers, advocates, journalists, human rights activists, professionals);

  • Design creation:

  1. Banner;

  2. Pen;

  3. Package;

  4. Folder;

  5. Program;

  6. Agenda A4 in Ukrainian;

  7. Agenda A4 in English;

  8. Notebook;

  9. Badges.

  • Translation services;

  • Negotiations for the involvement of MEPs - 750 contacts;

  • Negotiations for speakers;

  • Negotiations for people's deputies of Ukraine;

  • Negotiations for authoritative moderators;

  • Preparation of texts of speeches and questions to speakers;

  • Search for a videographer and photographer and write them a technical task;

  • Negotiating technical moments (live broadcast, online conference, sound);

  • Ordering services of a stenographer.

Participants

  • Oleksii Zhmerenetskyi

    Ukrainian politician, public figure and publicist, expert on information development, People's Deputy of Ukraine of the 9th convocation. He was elected to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine in the 190 majoritarian district from the Servant of the People party.

  • Maria Mezentseva

    Ukrainian politician, Mezentseva was elected to Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament, in 2019. She holds several positions related to European integration, including deputy chairperson of the Committee on Ukraine's Integration into the European Union and chairperson of the Ukrainian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

  • Patrick Gielen

    Master in Law of the University of Liège, has been a judicial officer in the Brussels judicial district since 2013 and has been working in partnership with the Modero office since 2017.

  • Frank Schwalba-Hoth

    Former politician, founding member of the German Greens, and former MEP.

  • Jevgeni Krištafovitš

    Estonian political scientist, director of the Center for European Initiatives.

  • Gene Burd

    International disputes lawyer. He handles some of the most complex, high-stakes international legal issues helping clients achieving their goals in strategic, “bet the company” disputes.

*Not the whole list of participants