UKRAINE’S EUROPEAN INTEGRATION AMID SECURITY CHALLENGES: PARTICIPATION IN AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Nataliia Kononenko, a Leading Researcher at the Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, participated in the International Interdisciplinary Scientific Conference “Quo vadis, Europa in temporibus arduis?”, which took place on June 10, 2026, at the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (Lublin, Republic of Poland). The conference was dedicated to an interdisciplinary reflection on the current challenges facing Europe in the context of worsening political, economic, and social crises, as well as the transformation of the security environment. The discussions focused on issues of European security, the development of the European Union, integration processes, the transformation of the international order, and Ukraine’s role in the contemporary European security architecture.
Within the framework of the conference, Nataliia Kononenko presented a report titled “Securitization of the Process of Ukraine’s European Integration,” which examined the peculiarities of rethinking Ukraine’s European integration under the conditions of a full-scale war and the strengthening of the security dimension of the European integration agenda. The event was organized by the European Center of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University as part of the “Together for Europe” project – a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, co-funded by the European Union under the Erasmus+ program.
