07: Stuck in the Middle: Eastern European States and their Relations with the EU and Russia
In cooperation with Austrian Federal Ministry for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs
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in englischer SpracheWhether in economic, energy or security policy, the interests of those states geographically located between the European Union and Russia can often become pawns in the diplomatic competition between these two regional players. How will the new Global Strategy on Foreign and Security Policy affect the EU s neighbouring countries in this light?
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Pavlo KLIMKIN
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ukraine, Kyiv
| 1991 | graduated from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Department of Aerophysics and Space Research, Master's degree in Physics and Mathematics |
| 1991-1993 | research officer, National Academy of Science of Ukraine, Paton Welding Institute |
| 1993-1997 | Attaché, Third, Second Secretary, Directorate-General for Arms Control and Disarmament, MFA of Ukraine |
| 1997-2000 | Third, Second Secretary, Embassy of Ukraine in the Federal Republic of Germany (political, scientific and technical issues) |
| 2000-2002 | First Secretary, Counselor, Department for Economic Cooperation, MFA of Ukraine |
| 2002-2004 | Head, Division for Economic and Sectoral Cooperation with the EU, Department for European integration, MFA of Ukraine |
| 2004-2008 | Minister-Counselor, Embassy of Ukraine to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland |
| 2008-2010 | Director, EU Department, MFA of Ukraine |
| 2010-2011 | Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine |
| 2011-2012 | Deputy Minister, Head of Staff |
| 2012-2014 | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the Federal Republic of Germany |
| since 2014 | Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine |
Alena KUPCHYNA
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Belarus, Minsk
| 1987 | Graduated from the Belarusian State University, Faculty of Law |
| 1987-1990 | Post-graduate study at the Belarusian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Philosophy and Law |
| 1990-1992 | Research Fellow, Institute of Philosophy and Law, Belarusian Academy of Sciences |
| 1991 | Doctor of Law |
| 1992-1993 | Second Secretary, Legal Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus |
| 1993-1994 | Head of International Treaties Division, Legal Department, MFA |
| 1994-1995 | Deputy Director of Legal Department, MFA |
| 1995-1997 | Counsellor, Permanent Mission of Belarus to UN Office and other international organizations at Geneva |
| 1997-1998 | Deputy Permanent Representative of Belarus to UN Office and other international organizations at Geneva |
| 2001-2002 | Consultant, Department of International Organizations, MFA |
| 2002-2004 | Director of Department for Humanitarian, Ecological, Scientific and Technical Cooperation, MFA |
| 2004-2006 | Director of Department for Humanitarian Cooperation and Human Rights, MFA |
| 2006-2012 | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Belarus to the Republic of Hungary |
| 2008-2012 | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Belarus to the Republic of Slovenia (with the residence in Budapest) |
| since 2012 | Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus |
Sebastian KURZ
Federal Chancellor, Republic of Austria, Vienna
| 2008-2011 | Provincial Chairman of the Young ÖVP - Austrian People's Party, Vienna |
| since 2009 | Federal Chairman of the Young ÖVP |
| 2010-2011 | Member of the Vienna Provincial Diet and Vienna City Council, ÖVP, Vienna |
| 2011-2013 | State Secretary for Integration, Federal Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Austria, Vienna |
| 2013-2017 | Austrian Federal Minister for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs, Vienna |
| since 2017 | Federal Chancellor, Republic of Austria, Vienna |
Dr. Miroslav LAJCAK
Minister for Foreign and European Affairs, Slovak Republic, Bratislava
| 1988-1991 | Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia, Prague |
| 1991-1993 | Embassy of Czechoslovakia, Moscow |
| 1993-1994 | Director, Cabinet of the Prime Minister of Slovakia; Director, Cabinet of the Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic, Bratislava |
| 1994-1998 | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Slovak Republic to Japan |
| 1998-2001 | Director, Cabinet of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic, Bratislava |
| 2001-2005 | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Slovak Republic to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (later Serbia and Montenegro), Republic of Albania and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia |
| 2005-2006 | Personal Representative of EU High Representative for CFSP to facilitate the Montenegrin dialogue |
| 2005-2007 | Director General for Political Affairs - Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Bratislava |
| 2007-2009 | High Representative / EU Special Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina Gallery |
| 2009-2010 | Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic |
| 2010-2012 | Managing Director, Europe and Central Asia, EEAS - European External Action Service, Brussels |
| 2012-2016 | Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic |
| since 2016 | Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic |
| 2017-2018 | President of the 72nd session of the UN General Assembly |
MA Jan TECHAU
Director, Richard C. Holbrooke Forum for the Study of Diplomacy and Governance, American Academy, Berlin
| Jan Techau is the director of Carnegie Europe, the European think tank of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Techau works on EU integration and foreign policy, transatlantic affairs, and German foreign and security policy. | |
| Before joining Carnegie in March 2011, Techau served in the NATO Defense College's Research Division from February 2010 until February 2011. He was director of the Alfred von Oppenheim Center for European Policy Studies at the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin between 2006 and 2010, and from 2001 to 2006 he served at the German Ministry of Defense's Press and Information Department. | |
| Techau is an associate scholar at the Center for European Policy Analysis and an associate fellow at both the German Council on Foreign Relations and the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies. He is a regular contributor to German and international news media and writes a weekly column for Judy Dempsey's Strategic Europe blog. |
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