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Establishing the Anticorruption Court in Ukraine: How to Not Make It an Instrument of the Corrupt Officials

March 20, 2018

When assessing the attempts at conducting reforms, international organizations and states with a steady democracy treat Ukraine diplomatically, with understanding, as if it were a child that is just learning to stand on her own two feet. In other words, if you don’t praise her, you might destroy any desire for learning to walk from… » read more

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Global Europe

, Anticorruption Court, corruption, courts, judiciary, Ukraine

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Three years of the way: an independent assessment of the implementation of the Association Agreement

March 15, 2018

Ukraine has been fulfilling the Association Agreement over three years. Therefore, we can already talk about certain trends: successes, challenges, failures. Which fields after three years have become successful, which failure? Recently, the Office of the Vice Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine presented the Report on the implementation of the Association… » read more

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Global Europe

, Association Agreement, customs, Energy efficiency, Energy sector, environment, EU, Intellectual property, law, Public health, Public procurement, Social policy, taxation, trade, transport, Ukraine

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Europe Doesn’t Need Nord Stream 2. Russia Does

March 8, 2018

In late January, the Nord Stream 2 pipeline project received permission for construction and operation where it would make landfall in Germany. Nord Stream 2, like its first iteration, seeks to transit 55 billion cubic meters (bcm) of Russian natural gas annually—by the Baltic Sea instead of through Ukraine. By redirecting gas flows, the Kremlin… » read more

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energy, EurActiv.com, Global Europe

, energy, EU, Europe, gas, Gazprom, Germany, Naftogaz, Nord Stream 2, Russia, security, transit, Ukraine

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Сustoms regulations: оverview of Ukraine’s progress in implementation of Association Agreement with the EU

February 28, 2018

Ukraine’s commitments under the Association Agreement with the EU in terms of customs regulations can be split into two major groups, as follows: Commitments regarding approximation of customs legislation (Annex XV of the Agreement) and Commitments of a general nature (Chapter 5 “Customs and Trade Facilitation” of the Agreement). With regard to the first group… » read more

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EurActiv.com, Global Europe

, Association Agreement, customs, EU, goods, legislation, trade, Ukraine

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On the way to building a service state

February 20, 2018

By signing the Association Agreement with the European Union, Ukraine has demonstrated its commitment to raising the living standards of Ukrainians. They include a conceptually new quality of public service and an adequate level of communication culture between the administration and citizens and business. During the first years after Ukraine gained independence, living conditions of… » read more

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EurActiv.com, Global Europe

, administrative services, Association Agreement, bureaucracy, EU, public service, the European Union, Ukraine

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ATTITUDES OF UKRAINIANS TOWARDS NATO: recent trends, hidden motivations and tasks for the future

February 12, 2018

Ukrainian society is increasingly supporting the idea of Ukraine’s accession to NATO as a mechanism for guaranteeing national security. Over recent years a dynamic growth in the level of such support has been observed in all regions of Ukraine without exception. At the same time, such support does not prevail in all the regions: residents… » read more

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, army, NATO, Russian aggression, security, Ukraine

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They do not understand: Ukrainian Hungarians and Romanians in the schools practically don’t study the state language

February 8, 2018

The governments of Hungary and Romania protested against the clauses of the new Ukrainian law on education which regulate the use of languages in teaching. We made a research of the proficiency of Hungarians, Romanians and Bulgarians in the obligatory independent knowledge assessment (IKA) on Ukrainian language. The Hungarians turned out to be the least… » read more

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, Bulgaria, education, Hungary, language, minority, Romania, Ukraine

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No longer exotic: how the Association Agreement helps to open up the EU market to Ukrainian food

February 6, 2018

Due to the approximation to European standards in the field of food safety, Ukraine is becoming less and less exotic for the EU market. Thus, the implementation of the Association Agreement opens the way for those sectors of the economy, in which, through the successful coordination of key stakeholders, the political will of the… » read more

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EurActiv.com

, Association Agreement, EU, export, food, legislation, market, reforms, standards, trade, Ukraine

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Constitutional Justice Reform in Ukraine: No Results Yet

January 31, 2018

In June 2016, the constitutional reform in the area of justice took place in Ukraine, part of which was reforming the status of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine aimed at ensuring its independence. Politically motivated decisions of the Constitutional Court under the Yanukovych regime, notably the unconstitutional change of the Constitution in September… » read more

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EurActiv.com, Global Europe

, Constitutional Court, court, EU, judiciary, justice, reform, Ukraine, Venice Commission

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The budget of Ukraine as a mirror of public management efficiency

January 25, 2018

Ukraine is paving the way of eurointegration and national community’s reconsolidating in conditions of political turmoil and military aggression from the Russian Federation. One of the most important challenges for Ukrainian government today is to restore people’s confidence to national governance institutions. Naturally, budget issues are ones of the major components of this process. Do… » read more

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, budget, EU, eurointegration, reforms, Ukraine

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