EU countries will have to decide by December whether or not to open accession negotiations with Ukraine and Moldova. 

The seminar will discuss whether the accession of new member states should be linked to internal institutional reforms, the lessons of two decades of European integration of Central and Eastern European countries, the costs of further enlargement to the East and the candidate countries' vision for future integration.

— Cristina Gherasimov, Senior Foreign Policy Advisor to the President of the Republic of Moldova

— R. Daniel Kelemen, McCourt Chair at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University

— Lukáš Macek, Director of the Dijon campus of Sciences Po, Head of the Centre Grande Europe of the Jacques Delors Institute

— Nikolaos Tzifakis,  Jean Monnet Chair in EU Foreign Policy and the Western Balkans and Professor of International Relations at the Department of Political Science and International Relations of the University of the Peloponnese.