EU and Ukraine: The Challenge to Integrate

Abstract
During the seminar Dr. Oksana Krayevska and Dr. Marianna Gladysh will discuss the history of European Union-Ukraine relations: their legal basis, institutional framework, areas of sectoral cooperation, and the problems and perspectives of development. They will present a possible scenario of the EU accession of Ukraine and the factors that it entails. Given the current context of the war against Ukraine, they will highlight how this will impact Ukraine's chances and plans of accession into the EU as well as the war's wider ramifications on European integration in general.

The overall purpose of the seminar is to present the evolution of Ukraine's relations with the EU as well as provide an understanding of the key mechanisms, forms and perspectives of the bilateral and multilateral partnership and cooperation.

Per Ekman (The Department of Government) will be discussant.

Speaker bios
Oksana Krayevska - PhD in Political Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of European and Regional Studies, Faculty of International Relations; Senior Specialist (part-time), Erasmus+ Institutional coordinator, Head of the Academic Mobility Unit, International Office, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (Ukraine). Expert in political and economic aspects of European Integration, Common Policies of the EU, the process of the EU enlargement, European Union Policy in the sphere of Tourism, EU-Ukraine relations, Educational Policy of the EU, International Project management.

Marianna Gladysh - PhD in Political Sciences,  Associate Professor of the Department of International Security and Strategic Studies, Faculty of International Relations at Ivan Franko  National University of Lviv, Ukraine. Head of the Centre of Northern European countries, Member of the Ukrainian European Studies Association (UESA, since 2019),  participant of the Jean Monnet Module “EU Common Policies: alignment strategies for Ukraine” (EUCPASU 2022-2025).