
(ANSA) - ROME, 30 SET - Facilitating strategic reflection among key players and producing concrete proposals to be presented at subsequent European meetings of the Westminster Alliance for Ukraine (WA4U) and to the relevant institutions: this is the objective of the debate on the role of the so-called Coalition of the Willing in supporting Ukraine and the country's future in post-conflict reconstruction, organised in Rome on 3 October by the Centro Studi Internazionali (CSI), WA4U's Italian partner, with the support of the Adenauer Foundation and the magazine "Europa 2028". The Westminster Alliance for Ukraine is a transnational interparliamentary initiative launched last May in the UK House of Commons with the aim of strengthening political and public support for the Coalition of the Willing, promoted by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron, with the participation of 31 countries, including Italy. WA4U focuses its work on the E5 countries - France, Germany, Italy, Poland and the United Kingdom - the main European economic and political powers in the coalition, promoting dialogue between their parliamentarians, but also with civil society, experts and strategic stakeholders, and with political representatives in Kiev through bimonthly meetings in the capitals of the five countries. The Italian event will bring together parliamentarians, current and former institutional representatives, academics and experts in security and international relations, stakeholders from the energy, defence and technology sectors, and qualified journalists from the E5 countries: participants will include former British MP Roger Casale, German Undersecretary for European Affairs Gunther Krichbaum, former Chief of Defence Staff Vincenzo Camporini, Director of the Jean Monnet Association Olivier Vedrine, and Director General of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers Francesco Tufarelli. The meeting will be divided into two thematic panels: "The role of the Coalition of the Willing in supporting Ukraine" and "Peacebuilding and post-war reconstruction". (ANSA).