Europe's Futures Annual Symposium 2023 Day 2 Panel 1

Europe's Futures Annual Symposium 2023
Cres, Croatia
Friday, 23 June 2023
Ukraine on the European Path and Its Adversaries
Keynote: Oksana Forostyna
Comment: Grigorij Mesežnikov, Wojciech Przybylski
Moderator: Luke Cooper

While the pro-Russian sentiments in Ukraine are decreasing, and while the parties with pro-Russian agenda are formally banned, it would be delusional to write them off. This research questions several assump- tions regarding “pro-Russian” political movements, such as the as- sumption that they only existed because of ideological and financial lifelines from Russia, now unavailable, and the deceptive dichotomy of “pro-Russian” and “pro-Ukrainian” politicians as the main actors. This dichotomy excludes the vague, wobbling body of ideas that has a his- tory of being instrumentalized, but never had a chance to resist the ap- propriation by the stronger ideologies. However, the attempts to consti- tute these ideas as something coherent began even before the invasion, and they may serve anti-EU actors well after the war.

At the Europe's Futures Annual Symposium 2023, the fifth cohort of Europe’s Futures Fellows presented the conclusions of their research in the academic year 2022/23. The findings were discussed with the Europe’s Futures Alumni Network and researchers from the University of Rijeka Center for Advanced Studies Southeast Europe.

Europe’s Futures is IWM’s strategic partnership initiative with the ERSTE Foundation aiming to understand and address challenges posed to Europe and the European Union by the eroding of democracy, rule of law deficiencies, migratory pressures or climate change.
In cooperation with University of Rijeka Center for Advanced Studies Southeast Europe (UNIRI CAS SEE).

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