Arseniy Yatsenyuk Open Ukraine Foundation in cooperation with Friedrich Ebert Foundation initiates informal meeting for young experts and professionals in field of international relations, students, graduates and civil activists with the Deputy Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Bundestag (Germany) Franc Thönnes.
The theme of the meeting – “Ukrainian conflict: how Germany should react.”
The meeting will take place on March 10 at 6 p.m. (the registration starts at 5.30 p.m.) in Kyiv at Vozdvyzhensky hotel (Vozdvyzhenska 60a) 5th floor.
During the meeting we will discuss the military conflict in Ukraine and the reaction of Europe towards it. The MP will express his thoughts about the steps, which Europe and the world can take in order to support Ukraine and which position Germany should have in this question.
The language of the training is English.
To participate please fill the registration form http://goo.gl/forms/2f4PE4x4wJ and send it till March 10 (4 p.m.), 2015.
Pre-registration is required.
For information:
Discussion Club “Open World” is an educational project for socially active young people. Its goal is to raise a new generation of responsible leaders.
Monthly the Foundation holds lectures with renowned experts, politicians and public figures, during which they discuss ways of effective solutions to social problems in Ukraine and the world.
The Friedrich Ebert Foundation is a German political foundation associated with the Social Democratic Party of Germany, yet independent of it. Fund is actively involved in the dissemination of policy freedom, solidarity and social justice around the world.
Franz Thönnes - Deputy Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Bundestag.
Since 1978 Franz Thönnes is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and from 1986 to 1992 – Chairman of East regional party in Schtorman.
In November 2005 – November 2009, Mr. Thönnes worked as a Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, and from March 2006 – Chairman of the German-Nordic Parliamentary German Bundestag Group for friendly relations development.
Since August 2006, Mr. Thönnes is a member of the Standing Committee of the BSPC. From December 2006 to August 2007 – Chairman of the Standing Committee of the BSPC and from October 2007 to September 2009 – Chairman of the BSPC Working Group on Labour and Social Welfare. Since February 2014, Franz Tennes is a member of the delegation of the German Bundestag in Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE, Deputy Delegate for Foreign Affairs of the SPD parliamentary group, Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs.
