The Verkhovna Rada leadership, heads of groups, factions, and parliamentary committees, and individual MPs will visit Brussels on Feb. 29 through March 3 to participate in a series of events relating to the internal reform of Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada, Dmytro Stoliarchuk, spokesperson of Rada's Speaker Volodymyr Groysman, said.
“The high-profile conference of the European Parliament and Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada on opportunities for reform will take place on February 29 – March 3 in Brussels in the framework of the Ukrainian week in the European Parliament. The conference will be an interim result of many months of work of the European Parliament’s mission led by ex-president of the EU Parliament Pat Cox. On Groysman’s invitation the mission conducted an audit of Rada in order to develop further steps to reform it,” Stoliarchuk told Interfax-Ukraine news agency.
He speakers at the conference will include Groysman, President of the EU Parliament Martin Schulz, Commissioner for the European Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn, Stoliarchuk said.
The Ukrainian week in the European Parliament will close on March 3. This day an extended meeting of the Bureau of the Ukraine-EU Parliamentary Committee and the final part of the conference will be held, he added.
