Reconstruction & Recovery
What to do with the rubble
Demolition waste is either an enormous disposal cost or a free supply of road aggregate. Which one it becomes is decided by regulation, not by engineering.
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Reconstruction & Recovery
Demining as an economic programme
Demining is filed under humanitarian assistance. It is more accurately understood as the highest-return infrastructure investment available in Ukraine, and the one that has to come…
Reconstruction & Recovery
Rebuilding schools and hospitals
A school is not a building with desks in it. Rebuilding one means deciding what a school has to be able to do in the conditions…
Foreign relations
From decision to framework
The European Council decided in December 2023 to open accession talks. The first quarter of 2024 was spent turning that decision into a document that says…
War economy
A four-year instrument instead of an annual argument
In early 2024 the European Union adopted a multi-year financing instrument for Ukraine. Its most valuable feature is its duration.
Culture and identity
The shelter is the school building
By early 2024 whether a Ukrainian child sat in a classroom depended on one thing: whether the school had somewhere safe to go when the siren…
Reconstruction & Recovery
The Ukraine Facility: what changes when financing gets a calendar
Fifty billion euros over four years, disbursed against a reform plan with quarterly indicators. The amount matters. The predictability matters more, and it changes what a…
Culture and identity
Teaching the hands that will do the restoration
Restoring a damaged historic building requires skills that a country loses quietly when it stops needing them. Rebuilding that workforce is slower than rebuilding the buildings…
National Days & Anniversaries
International Women's Day 2024
A greeting in a period when the composition of the workforce has changed more than at any point I have witnessed here.
Domestic balance
Turning demining into an industry
By early 2024 Ukraine had done something few mine-affected countries manage: it built a certification and market structure so that clearance could scale beyond what donors…
Humanitarian dimension
Medical evacuation as a European system
One of the most effective arrangements of this war has almost no public profile: a mechanism that moves patients from Ukrainian hospitals into beds across Europe.
Domestic balance
The winter that went better than expected
The winter of 2023 to 2024 passed with far fewer outages than the one before it. Understanding why is more useful than being relieved about it.
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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
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Foreign trade flows, free trade agreements, customs practice and the practical mechanics of entering the Ukrainian market.
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Politics & Governance
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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
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Damage assessment, recovery financing, construction capacity and the institutions being built to spend it well.
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EU & Euro-Atlantic Integration
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The Association Agreement, DCFTA, candidate status, accession negotiations and the regulatory convergence behind them.
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Agriculture & Food
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Grain, oilseeds, the land market, export logistics and Ukraine's role in global food supply.
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Society & Regions
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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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