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Fighting corruption by touch, or why Ukraine still does not have an Anticorruption Strategy for 2018-2020

July 16, 2018

The main priorities of the state anticorruption policy in Ukraine should be defined in a special regulatory act – the Anticorruption Strategy. This is an important document for combating corruption in Ukraine, as it defines the main priorities of the state anticorruption policy for a certain period and is the only basis for the elaboration… » read more

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, anticorruption policy, anticorruption reforms, anticorruption strategy, corruption, NACP, reforms, Ukraine

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New food legislation: providing information about products

July 11, 2018

Thanks to the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU, significant changes will be made to the national food legislation, including the regulation of providing information to consumers, in accordance with the Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 of the European Parliament and Council of 25 October 2011 on the provision of food information to consumers. Adoption… » read more

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Agriculture & Food, EurActiv.com, Global Europe

, Association Agreement, consumers, EU, European Food Law, food legislation, food products, food standards, market, market operators, Ukraine

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Visa Union around the EU

July 5, 2018

The European Union and Ukraine have a broad range of tools of integration covering different aspects of relations: Association Agreement, law enforcement and readmission cooperation, visa liberalization, Creative Europe etc. Both parties expressed intention to cooperate on joining Ukraine to Customs Union, Energy Union, and Single Digital Market. Launch of visa-free regime was the second… » read more

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EurActiv.com, Global Europe

, EU, Schengen, Ukraine, visa policy, visa unions, visa-free regime

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Real decentralisation: cooperation of territorial communities in action

June 19, 2018

The Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU creates the necessary preconditions for implementing new approaches in regional policy. For Ukraine one of the most important areas concerning regional policy is the cooperation of territorial communities. The basic law of the decentralization reform that regulates this issue, similar to the EU-member countries, was adopted in… » read more

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EurActiv.com

, Association Agreement, decentralization, EU, local budgets, reforms, regional policy, subventions, territorial communities, Ukraine

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How the US and EU Can Make the Kremlin Rethink Its Options in Ukraine’s Donbas

June 11, 2018

Before Donald Trump’s ascension to power, Washington, Berlin, and Paris were essentially on the same policy page toward pacifying the conflict in Donbas. The broad aim was to contain the violence and facilitate direct talks between Moscow and Kyiv. The Trump administration’s track toward Russia and Donbas has been disjointed, but lately, it appears to… » read more

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EurActiv.com, Global Europe

, Donbas, EU, Kremlin, NATO, OSCE, Russia, Russian aggression, Ukraine, UN peacekeepers, USA, war in the Donbas

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EU antitrust settlement with Gazprom: opportunities for Ukraine

June 4, 2018

Summary of the decision On May 24, the European Commission has published its final and binding decision in its antitrust/cartel case 39816 on Upstream gas supplies in Central and Eastern Europe by virtue of which it has obliged Gazprom to rectify numerous abuses on the European gas market. Namely, in pursuance to Article 9 of… » read more

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energy, EurActiv.com, Global Europe

, Association Agreement, CEE, energy, Energy Community, energy security, EU, European Commission, European gas market, gas, Gazprom, GTS, Russia, Third Energy Package, Ukraine

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An unconstitutional Law on Referendum was abolished in Ukraine

May 28, 2018

On April 26, 2018, the Constitutional Court declared unconstitutional the Law “On All-Ukrainian Referendum”, which was adopted at the time of Yanukovych. The decision of the Constitutional Court to declare the Law “On All-Ukrainian Referendum” unconstitutional has stopped the possibility of conducting manipulative national referenda in Ukraine. Thus, the state remains protected from conducting referenda,… » read more

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EurActiv.com, Global Europe

, Constitution of Ukraine, Law "On All-Ukrainian Referendum", legislation, national referendum, Ukraine, Venice Commission

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Leprosy of the land: illegal amber mining turns Ukraine landscape to «lunar» like

May 23, 2018

The amber “Klondike” of Ukraine provide “jobs” to thousands of people living nearby this gem deposits in the Polissya – North-West part of Ukraine (Volyn, Zhytomyr, and most of all in Rivne region). A few decades ago one could hardly imagine how to turn the solar stone into profits. People would dig up amber in… » read more

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EurActiv.com

, amber, amber mining, China, Poland, solar stone, trade, Ukraine

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Cargo delay. Transit potential and cooperation with the EU

May 16, 2018

How will non-adaptation of Ukrainian legislation to the EU directives in the transport sector affect the transit potential of the country? An increase of Ukrainian export to the EU cannot be achieved without the development of transport infrastructure. Therefore, the Association Agreement aims to bring Ukrainian legislation closer to the requirements of the European Union,… » read more

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EurActiv.com, Global Europe

, Association Agreement, Cargo, CPC, ECMT, EU, export, infrastructure, legislation, transport, Ukraine

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Attitudes of Ukrainians toward Russia and Russians: Dynamics and Main Trends

May 8, 2018

Dynamics of Public Opinion in Ukraine in the “Prewar” Period (2008–2013) From the start of monitoring of public opinion in Ukraine and Russia to the time of Russian military aggression against Ukraine in 2014, sociologists generally noted a relative stability in the dynamics of attitudes of Ukrainians toward Russia. This prewar period of monitoring of… » read more

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EurActiv.com, Global Europe

, annexation of Crimea, Crimea, Donbas, opinion poll, Russia, Russian aggression, Russian military aggression, Russians, society, Ukraine, Ukrainians

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