On Saturday, 16 May, Ukraine will celebrate Europe Day. For the first time in 14 years, it will be held without any festivities for the obvious reason – the pandemic, which did not left Ukraine and the European Union unaffected as well. Read more
Category: Reforms
EU provides over EUR 190 million to address COVID-19 repercussions in Ukraine
An exclusive interview by Matti Maasikas, Head of the EU Delegation to Ukraine, to Interfax-Ukraine Read more
EU Pravo-Justice project helps to improve security in Ukraine through probation system
“Probation: A Safer Society”. Kyiv Mayor’s Office hosted the first open forum devoted to European system of working with criminal offenders: rehabilitation without incarceration. As part of the forum, a press conference devoted to the fifth anniversary of passing the Probation Act was held at Kyiv City State Administration. Read more
EU project helps to estimate shadow crops in Ukraine
EOS Crop Monitoring analysts made an estimate of the harvest gathered last year from unregistered land plots in Ukraine. The figure exceeds UAH 88.5 billion. Read more
EU4Skills helping to improve quality and prestige of vocational education in Ukraine
EU4Skills program was launched in Ukraine. Thanks to this program, European partners, working jointly with the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, will improve infrastructure, procure equipment and organize training for teachers at vocational schools. Read on to find out whom these changes will concern and what the students of vocational schools, colleges, specialized lyceums and centers should expect. Read more
EU project helps reform bankruptcy system in Ukraine
The improvement of investment climate and lower loan interest rates in Ukraine: that’s the result which, in the opinion of European experts, the establishment of an independent association of trustees in bankruptcy should produce. Read more
U-LEAD with Europe hands two mobile ASCs to hromadas in Dnipropetrovsk and Khmelnytskyi regions
The ceremony of handing over the keys to two mobile administrative service centers (ASCs) to the heads of Mezhova (Dnipropetrovsk Oblast) and Dunaivtsi (Khmelnytskyi Oblast) communities took place in Kyiv, an Ukrinform correspondent reports. Read more
EU Ambassador about successes and failures of Ukrainian reforms
How the European Union assesses the progress of judicial, anti-corruption, land and other reforms in Ukraine; whether the West is satisfied with President Zelensky’s approach to resolving the Donbas conflict; how long sanctions against Russia will last; and what are the prospects for Ukraine’s accession to the EU – read all this in the big interview of Head of the EU Delegation to Ukraine Matti Maasikas. Read more
New electricity market: what was before and how is it now?
The first step in the transition from the old to a new model of the electricity market has been taken by establishing a wholesale market where generating companies or electricity producers make direct contracts with buyers Read more
5 Risks of the Implementation of the Probation System in Ukraine
After the penal system reform in Ukraine, as in American serial movies, petty criminals can go back home without wristbands after the court. A new system of probation is being established for it: the system that allows a convicted person avoid the jail, but not the punishment for the crime. This system is widely used in the West and has already allowed reducing both the number of crime victims and the level of crimes. The same results are expected also in the Eastern Europe. Will Ukrainian probation system cope with such tasks and challenges? Won’t the convicted people who were freed from the jail become an additional burden on the law-enforcement bodies and distress for their families and neighbours? Valeri MacNerney, an international expert of the European Union project “Pravo-Justice” on the implementation of volunteer institute in probation and improvement of the cooperation with public organizations. Read more
