Black Sea Conference

The Future of the Black Sea Region Conference

On 29-30th of September Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom South Caucasus, Europe-Georgia Institute and Strategic Dialogue Center organized the Future of the Black Sea Region Conference (FLEECE).

There were the following panels on the conference: Black Sea in European Security Context Tengiz Pkhaladze (Moderator) 🇬🇪, Jelger Groeneveld 🇳🇱, Giorgi Badridze 🇬🇪, Velizar Shalamanov 🇧🇬, Ioannis N. Grigoriadis 🇬🇷 EU/NATO Politics in the Region George Melashvili (Moderator) 🇬🇪, John DiPirro 🇺🇸, Roman Jakič 🇸🇮, William Townsend 🇬🇧, Martin Angeby 🇸🇪, Tony van der Togt 🇳🇱 Democratic Development in Black Sea Region: Shamil Shugaev (Moderator) 🇬🇪, Oleksiy Melnyk 🇺🇦, Alex Petriashvili 🇬🇪, Yordan Bozhilov 🇧🇬, Dimitrios Triantaphyllou 🇬🇷 On the second day of the conference participants of the FLEECE Fellowship - students from different universities of Georgia presented the opinion papers on related topics they elaborated on within the Fellowship program.