Foreign relations
The category that had been left alone
By 2024 European sanctions reached liquefied natural gas for the first time, and the way it was done shows how these decisions are actually made.
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EU & Euro-Atlantic Integration
Competition policy and state aid
A single market only works if the same rules on subsidy and market power apply everywhere. That discipline is one of the harder parts of accession.
National Days & Anniversaries
Vyshyvanka Day, 16 May 2024
A greeting for the day, and a note on the shirts being made now by people who learned during the war.
Domestic balance
When the strikes moved from the wires to the turbines
The attacks of 2022 targeted substations, which can be repaired in days. The attacks of spring 2024 targeted generating plant, which cannot. The response had to…
National Days & Anniversaries
Easter 2024
The fifth of May, and a greeting from the twentieth Easter I have marked in this country.
EU & Euro-Atlantic Integration
The fundamentals cluster
Rule of law, public administration, procurement and statistics. This group of chapters opens first, closes last, and determines the pace of everything else.
Reconstruction & Recovery
Designing for people who came back injured
Accessibility has moved from a compliance box to a mainstream design requirement, because a large number of people now need it and they are visible.
Reconstruction & Recovery
Build back better, in practice not in slogans
The phrase is used so often it has stopped meaning anything. It has a precise meaning, and it is written into building codes rather than speeches.
EU & Euro-Atlantic Integration
Screening: comparing two legal systems chapter by chapter
Before anything is negotiated, both sides sit down and go through the entire body of law together. It is tedious and it sets the real agenda.
Reconstruction & Recovery
Rebuilding energy infrastructure to a better standard
The temptation after damage is to restore exactly what was there. In energy that would mean rebuilding the concentration that made the system vulnerable.
Energy & Infrastructure
The turn to distributed generation
A system built around a few very large power stations is efficient and concentrated. Ukraine has been rebuilding towards the opposite topology.
Quarterly & Annual Reports
Ukraine Market Report — Q1 2024
A multi-year EU financing facility agreed in February gave the civilian budget a horizon it had not had since 2022, and the maritime corridor carried volumes…
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Quarterly & Annual Reports
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A continuous record of the Ukrainian market, quarter by quarter and year by year: output, currency, trade, sectors and what each period settled.
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Economy & Macro
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Growth, inflation, the hryvnia, budgets and the macro-financial programmes that keep Ukraine's economy running.
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Trade & Investment
69
Foreign trade flows, free trade agreements, customs practice and the practical mechanics of entering the Ukrainian market.
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Politics & Governance
47
Elections, governments, parliamentary arithmetic and the institutional reforms that shape the business environment.
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Energy & Infrastructure
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Gas, electricity, transit, nuclear generation, ports and the transport corridors that connect Ukraine to its markets.
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Reconstruction & Recovery
46
Damage assessment, recovery financing, construction capacity and the institutions being built to spend it well.
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EU & Euro-Atlantic Integration
49
The Association Agreement, DCFTA, candidate status, accession negotiations and the regulatory convergence behind them.
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Agriculture & Food
44
Grain, oilseeds, the land market, export logistics and Ukraine's role in global food supply.
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Society & Regions
57
Demography, labour, migration, regional economies and the human context behind the numbers.
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Folklore & Esoterica
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The ritual year, the symbols embroidered into cloth and painted onto eggs, the Carpathian practitioners and the philosophers — the older layer beneath modern Ukraine.
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National Days & Anniversaries
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Independence Day and the other dates in Ukraine's calendar, each read against the state of the country in that year.
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