Third Annual Export Forum
Ua
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Through the thorns to the EU
New challenges and new opportunities for Ukrainian exporters
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Third Annual Export Forum
Through the thorns to the EU
New challenges and new opportunities for Ukrainian exporters
In 2025, global trade has entered a new phase – an era of rising protectionism and high tariffs. This is already hitting Ukraine’s trade rules with the EU, creating new challenges but also opening up space for strategic decisions. The expiry of the EU’s autonomous trade measures introduced to support Ukraine is not the end of opportunities, but the beginning of a new stage of cooperation.
The year 2025 has brought a number of new challenges for Ukrainian exports
These include the cessation of the EU’s autonomous preferences, the “global tariff war” launched by US President Donald Trump, and the strengthening of the voices of European farmers who are openly afraid of competition from Ukrainians.
However, new challenges also bring new opportunities.
For Ukrainian exporters this is a chance to rethink approaches: strengthen their presence on the EU market, find new niches in global trade, develop competitiveness and adapt faster to regulations in agriculture and industrial production.
During the third annual Export Forum organised by Ekonomichna Pravda and European Pravda, Ukrainian exporters, government officials and EU representatives will jointly seek innovative answers to key questions of international trade.
Among other things —
We will try to dispel the myths that have already formed around Ukrainian export
Is it really true that Ukraine’s accession to the EU will “kill” European farmers?
Will Ukraine take all the EU’s agri-subsidies?
And that the Ukrainian agri-sector will not be ready for a long time to comply with all the EU’s requirements?
Ukraine is a candidate country for EU membership and a special partner of the Community
We should strive for special relations even for the period before membership, laying the foundations for equal integration into the single market and strengthening Ukraine’s role in the global economy.
Forum speakers
Roksolana Pidlasa
The Chairperson of the Committee on Budget
Gediminas Navickas
Deputy Head of the EU Delegation to Ukraine
Serhii Sydorenko
Editor of European Pravda
Matteo Rivellini
EIB, Head of Ukraine Investment Team
Andriy Bukin
Deputy Chairperson of the Board of Pivdenny Bank
Igor Blystiv
Chief Marketing & Innovation Officer
Yurii Panchenko
Editor of European Pravda
Sevğil Musaieva
Editor-in-Chief of Ukrainska Pravda
Mykola Maksymchuk
Editor of Economichna pravda
Oleg Krukavsky
Director of Government Relations ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih
Karin Karlsbro
Member of the European Parliament
Nataliya Sydoruk
Government Relations Director at Interpipe
Kateryna Mykhalko
Director-General at "Tech Force in UA"
Mustafa Nayem
Head of GR of one of the largest Ukrainian UAV manufacturers
Vladislav Belbas
Director General of Design and Manufacturing Company “Ukrainian Armor”
Iryna Nesterenko
Vice President of Operations at Corporation Biosphere
Denys Marchuk
Deputy Chairman of the Public Union "Ukrainian Agri Council"
Arsen Didur
Executive Director of the The Union of Dairy Enterprises of Ukraine
Nikitin Vladlen
LLC "UA Aviation & Space Technologies"
Ruslan Hashev
Chairman of the Management Board – PJSC Export-Credit Agency
Gennadiy Chyzhykov
President of the Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Olga Bielkova
Senior Advisor FTI Consulting Brussels
Schedule
16:00 — 16:10
Introduction Economic truth and European truth
16:10 — 16:40
Small talk: "What is the future of Ukraine-EU trade?"
16:40 — 17:30
Panel 1: "Ukrainian exports that particularly frighten the EU. How can the agri-sector overcome prejudice?"
17:30 — 18:10
Break
18:10 — 18:50
Small talk: Not the EU alone?
18:50 — 19:30
Panel 2: “Industrial competitiveness. How Ukraine and Europe can strengthen each other”
5 000 uah
Third Annual Export Forum
2 october
04:00 AM
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