View this email in your browser [https://wiiw.ac.at/files/mailings/event-201811090939-en.html]   Dear colleagues, It is our pleasure to invite you to a dedicated Workshop organised in cooperation with the Friedrich Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Regional Office for Cooperation and Peace in Europe (FES-ROCPE) [https://www.eu2018.at/de/] under the auspices of the Austrian Presidency of the EU Council [https://www.eu2018.at/de/]. CONNECTIVITY IN EU’S WIDER EASTERN NEIGHBOURHOOD                                         Eastern Partnership External Relations Workshop THURSDAY, 29 NOVEMBER 2018, 9.30-17.30 Austrian Central Bank (OeNB) Otto-Wagner Platz 3, 1090 Vienna   Welcome and Opening THOMAS M. BUCHSBAUM, Special Envoy on Eastern Partnership, Austrian Federal Ministry for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs and HANNES SWOBODA, President, Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw) Panel I: The development of the EAEU and the EU, and effective multilateralism The panel will compare the very different stages of institutional and integrational developments of the EAEU and the EU as well as the respective goals and prospects of the two integrations. _Panelists: _DIRK SCHÜBEL (European External Action Service, Brussels) - ANDREAS STADLER (Austrian diplomat and political scientist, Vienna) - ANDREA HOFER (Austrian Central Bank, Vienna) - EKATERINA DYACHENKO (Court of the Eurasian Economic Union, Minsk) - ALEXANDRA DIENES (FES ROCPE, Vienna) Panel II: Macro-economic aspects and effects of EU-EAEU cooperation and potential integration The panel will discuss potential effects of integration, focusing on economic growth, trade and foreign direct investments. _Panelists: _NATHANIEL YOUNG (EBRD, London) - DIANA GALOYAN (Armenian State University of Economics, Yerevan) - VIACHASLAU YARASHEVICH (International University “MITSO”, Minsk) - VALERYI PYATNYCKYI (Black Sea Trade and Development Bank, Thessaloniki) - AMAT ADAROV (wiiw, Vienna) - PETER HAVLIK (wiiw, Vienna) Panel III: Sectoral connectivity, including infrastructure, energy and labor markets issues The panel will deal with the priority areas transport infrastructure, energy and mobility, as well as issues related to labour market developments. _Panelists_: HERMINE VIDOVIC (wiiw, Vienna) - YURI SHCHERBANIN (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow) - IGOR BURAKOVSKY (Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting, Kyiv) - JOHANNES LEITNER (University of Applied Sciences, Vienna) - MICHAEL LANDESMANN (wiiw, Vienna) Enclosed, please find the Outline and Agenda of the Workshop, which will be held in English. We kindly ask you to REGISTER for the event via the following link [https://wiiw.ac.at/e-409.html] and look forward to seeing you at an insightful discussion.  Yours sincerely,                                Thomas M. Buchsbaum, Special Envoy on Eastern Partnership, Austrian Federal Ministry for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs Peter Havlik, Economist and Former Deputy Director, wiiw    Alexandra Dienes, Research Associate, FES-ROCPE   wiiw The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies Rahlgasse 3, 1060 Vienna, Austria wiiw@wiiw.ac.at, wiiw.ac.at [https://wiiw.ac.at] T: +43 1 533 66 10 [tel:+4315336610] [http://www.facebook.com/wiiw.economic.studies] [http://www.twitter.com/wiiw_news] [http://www.linkedin.com/company/vienna-institute-for-international-economic-...] [http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyNuSfsgzgBsIf7AaH8Vk-Q] [https://wiiw.ac.at/rss.php] Copyright ©2018 wiiw, all rights reserved.