NPR broadcasts EU, Ukraine, Russia leaders debating gas crisis and the way forward
January 26, 2009
On January 26, the German Marshall Fund and the European Council on Foreign Relations hosted a panel discussion on the Russia-Ukraine gas crisis. The panelists were Alexandr Vondra, deputy prime minister for European Affairs for the Czech Republic; Hryhoriy Nemyria, deputy prime minister for European and international integration for Ukraine; Vladimir Chizhov, Russian ambassador to the European Union; and Pierre Noel, senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. Discussions opened with Ronald Asmus, executive director of the Transatlantic Center and strategic planning of GMF, asking each of the panelists for their position on how this crisis came to be and their thinking on the way forward.The discussion will be broadcast on NPR Worldwide's stations the weekend of February 14, 2009.



