Public Symposium“The European Union’s Eastern Partnership:Results, Prospects and Visions“
A symposium entitled, “The European Union’s Eastern Partnership: Results, Prospectsand Visions”, will be held in Sapporo on November 30, 2011. The symposium is beingorganised by the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Tokyo as an accompanying event tothe Polish Presidency in the Council of the European Union in the second half of 2011. Theevent is a follow-up to the Eastern Partnership Summit that was held 29-30 September 2011
in Warsaw, Poland.
During the symposium we would like to present the Eastern Partnership concept to Japanesepublic and academic opinion leaders, officials, experts and media representatives. We would
like to discuss the most important and current issues related to the Eastern Partnershipinitiative, such as the assessment of the implementation of the Eastern Partnership, challenges
and prospects over the next years.
We would like to invite you to take part in this event, which will be an excellent opportunity
to discuss the most relevant issues regarding the Eastern Partnership initiative.
The Eastern Partnership (EaP)
EaP is the first comprehensive initiative introduced into the system of the European Union’sexternal relations, addressed to Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova andUkraine. The bases for the initiated cooperation are shared European values such as freedom,democracy, rule of law and respect for human rights. Thanks to the participation in thePartnership, the countries of Eastern Europe and South Caucasus have chance to integrate
closely with the European Union both politically and economically, at the same time taking
advantage of the common market and political support of the community. The EaP is part ofEuropean Neighbourhood Policy which was the first coherent initiative through which theEuropean Union could pursue an active policy towards its neighbours, supporting theireconomic modernization and political reform. The initiative was officially launched at thefirst Eastern Partnership summit in Prague on May 7 2009, which adopted a Joint Declaration.
It marked the successful establishment of the Partnership as an integral component ofEuropean Union foreign policy. The EaP is the culmination of Polish efforts to build the best
possible relations with its eastern neighbours and contribute to their inclusion in thecoordinated policy of the European Union.

Symposium agenda
 Date: November 30, 2011 (Wednesday) Time: 14.00 – 16.00 (registration opens at 13.30)
 Venue: Slavic Research Center, Sapporo, 4th Floor, Room 403
 Languages: English and Japanese (simultaneous interpretation)
 Program:
14:00 Opening remarks:
Prof.Tetsuo Mochizuki, Director of Slavic Research Center
Mr.Radosław Tyszkiewicz, Political and Press Affairs, Embassy of the Republic ofPoland
14:20 Session:
Ms.Beata Wojna, The Polish Institute of Foreign Affairs (PISM), Poland“The Eastern Partnership: A long-term strategy at work”
Ms.Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz, Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW), Poland“Turning Partnership into business: The Eastern Partnership as an economicProject”
Mr.Rafał Sadowski, Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW), Poland"Developments in the Eastern European countries. Challenges and prospects for
the EU and the Eastern Partnership."
Mr.Adam Balcer, Centre for European Strategy, DemosEuropa, Poland“A Power Audit: The third states (Russia, China, the US, Turkey and others) as
stake holders in the Eastern Partnership”

15:45 – 16.00 Questions and answers session

Early registration is highly recommended due to a limited number of seats.
Registration will be decided on a first come first served basis.
We look forward to your participation in our symposium.

Partners:
Beata WOJNA - Head ofthe Research Office (since2010) and researcher (since2004) at the Polish Instituteof International Affairs in Warsaw. Her main areas of interest are EU foreign relations, especially the European
Neighbourhood Policy in its Eastern and Southern dimension, and Polish and Spanish European policy. She
holds a Ph.D. in Geography and History (2004) from the Complutense University in Madrid, Spain. Her doctoral
studies were conducted at the Department of Contemporary History in Madrid (1999–2004), holding research
grant from Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional (2002-2003), having research stay at the Université
Libre de Bruxelles (2001), and participating in research projects financed by the Spanish Ministry of Science andEducation. She is the author of several publications focusing on EU relations with its neighbours. Among her
recent activity are two Reports: “Asserting the EU’s Mission in the Neighbourhood: Ten Recommendations foran Effective Eastern Partnership”, prepared with Kerry Longhurst, and „EU and Its Southern Neighbours: New
Challenges for the European Neighbourhood Policy”.
Katarzyna PEŁCZYŃSKANAŁĘCZ - 2006-2010 Deputy
Director of the Centre for
Eastern Studies (OSW). Since
2011 head of the OSW Brussels Office. In 2009-2010 member of the Eastern Partnership Civic Society Forum
Steering Committee. Member of the Polish-Russian Group for Difficult Issues. Her main research interests
embrace: transformation processes in the post-soviet region, EU relations with Russia, European NeighborhoodPolicy, Eastern Partnership.
Selected publications: Integration or imitation: EU policy towards its eastern neighbors (OSW 2011); How far
do the borders of the West extend? Russian-Polish strategic conflicts in the period 1990–2010 (OSW 2010);
Para-States in the Post-Soviet Area from 1991 to 2007 (International Studies Review, University of Arizona2008); Who Rules Russia and How? (in: Towards an Understanding of Russia, Council on Foreign Relations,
New York 2002).
Rafał SADOWSKI - Joined OSW in 2001, where he has been working as an analyst for theDepartment for Ukraine, Belarus and the Baltic States and then as a head of the Central-European Department.
Since January 2010, he is the head of the Eastern Partnership Department. Editor-in-chief of the EaPCommunity
website (www.easternpartnership.org), which is dedicated to the relations between the European Union andcountries of the Easter Partnership initiative. He received his M.A. in the Centre for East European Studies ofWarsaw University. He was also studied a cultural anthropology in the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural
Anthropology of Warsaw University. His current research area includes EU-Eastern European states relations,
Eastern Partnership and European Neighbourhood Policy, as well as internal situation and foreign policies ofEastern European states. In a past, he was also dealing with current political situation in Central and South-EastEurope, internal situation and foreign policy of Belarus, cross-border cooperation in Eastern Europe, Turkish
foreign policy.

Adam BALCER - Programme Director "EU Enlargement and Neighbourhood" atdemosEUROPA Centre for European Strategy. He graduated from the Centre for East EuropeanStudies (M.A) and in the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, the University ofWarsaw. He was an expert at the Department of Central Europe (Balkan section) at the Centre forEastern Studies, Warsaw and Project Leader "Turkey after the launch of EU accession negotiations - foreign
policy and internal affairs". Currently, he is a Ph.D. candidate and lecturer at the Centre for East EuropeanStudies, the University of Warsaw.He published numerous articles and reports on Balkans, Turkey, the CIS andthe Black Sea.