Yalta European Strategy
Yalta European Strategy
We support YES — the Yalta European Strategy — an international network that promotes Ukraine's European integration. YES is an international network to promote a just, democratic and prosperous Ukraine, to help Ukraine’s transformation and to support its eventual EU accession. In order to achieve this goal, YES brings together leaders from politics, business and society to debate global challenges and Ukraine’s place in the world and develop policy recommendations. YES uses its position as a top level debate platform to promote Ukraine’s EU membership perspective in Ukraine and in the EU.
Its Annual Meeting in Yalta has become the main high-level forum in Ukraine to debate global challenges and Ukraine’s place in the world. Among the speakers at the Yalta Annual Meeting have been Tony Blair, Bill Clinton, Joschka Fischer, Gerhard Schroder, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, James Wolfensohn, Leonid Kuchma, and Viktor Yanukovych.
YES is governed by a distinguished international board: Aleksander Kwasniewski (chairman), Mario David, Stephane Fouks, Victor Pinchuk, Alexander Rahr, Jean-Pierre Saltiel, and Marek Siwiec. YES came about in July 2004 in Yalta, when Victor Pinchuk invited some 30 European leaders to debate the future of Ukraine and the EU. During the conference, participants proposed to join forces and to create a collective initiative.
