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The Time is Now - Is the Time Now?

When:
June 7, 2023

Where:
Haus der Eurpäischen Union
Wipplingerstrasse 35
1010 Vienna

Event recap:

„Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation, and chaos.“

Almost 76 years to the day after George C. Marshall spoke this sentence, its meaning is more relevant than ever due to the Russian attack on Ukraine.

Therefore, the representation of the EU Commission in Vienna and Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation took the anniversary of George Marshall's speech as an opportunity to discuss the framework for a Marshall Plan for Ukraine.

The main outcomes of this discussion are:

• The Marshall Plan was strategy not charity.
• Preparatory work must begin now.
• Security guarantees are needed for a functioning Marshall Plan
• Process must be carried out by Ukraine, according to the Marshall Plan motto: "Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe".

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Event details:

3:30 PM Welcoming Remarks

Martin Selmayr & Wolfgang Petritsch

3:40 PM Lessons Learned from the Marshallplan

Professor Günter Bischof
Austrian Marshall Plan Chair and Professor of History

4:00 PM Approaches for a Marshallplan for Ukraine (incl. Q&A)

Chair:
Elisabeth Springler
University of Applied Sciences BFI Vienna

Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff
German Marshall Fund

Michael Landesmann
Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (WIIW)

Wilhelm Molterer
Former Austrian Vice-Chancellor, Vice- President of the European Investment Bank and Managing Director of the European Fund for Strategic Investments

Julia Wörz
Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB)

5:30 PM Coffee break

6:00 PM Key Note

Katherine Younger
IWM Permanent Fellow and
Research Director of our Ukraine in European Dialogue program

6:20 PM Panel Discussion

Chair:
Siobhan Geets
Profil

Vasyl Khymynets
Ambassador of Ukraine to Austria

Wolfgang Petritsch
President of the Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation

Martin Selmayr
European Commission Representative in Austria

Oleksii Soboliev
Deputy Minister of Economy of Ukraine (from Kiev by videoconferencing)

Katherine Younger
IWM Permanent Fellow and Research Director of our Ukraine in European Dialogue program

7:30 PM Reception

From left: Ambassador Wolfgang Petrisch, Ambassador Victoria Kennedy, and European Commission Representative Martin Selmayr.
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European Commission Representative Martin Selmayr
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Panel discussion.
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