Some Ukrainian institutions have survived every change of government since they were created. Identifying what they have in common is more useful than praising them.
Ukrainians abroad send money home in enormous volumes and invest at home in very small ones. Closing that gap is a policy question with a large…
Accession would place a very large agricultural producer inside a budget designed without it. The arithmetic is real and so are the answers to it.
A country can join a great deal of the European system without joining the Union, and Ukraine has been doing exactly that, sector by sector.
A fourth harvest exported through the corridor without incident, and an economy in which the wartime arrangements have become simply the way things are done.
Synchronising the physical grid was the visible step. Market coupling — trading electricity on the same terms as everyone else — is the longer and less…
A company that starts preparing on the day of accession is five years behind one that started now. This is the practical list.
Several countries have been candidates for European membership for well over a decade. What happened to them is the most important cautionary material available to Ukraine.
Recovery money arrives with environmental conditions attached. Treating them as an imposition misses that most of them reduce the operating cost of what is being built.
Opening negotiating clusters requires unanimity, and unanimity can be withheld. What a candidate does in that situation is the interesting question.
Two candidates received status on the same day and are negotiating in parallel. They are very differently sized and the comparison is more useful than it…
A large number of people returning from service, and a construction sector short of tens of thousands of workers. The match is obvious and it does…
A continuous record of the Ukrainian market, quarter by quarter and year by year: output, currency, trade, sectors and what each period settled.
Growth, inflation, the hryvnia, budgets and the macro-financial programmes that keep Ukraine's economy running.
Foreign trade flows, free trade agreements, customs practice and the practical mechanics of entering the Ukrainian market.
Elections, governments, parliamentary arithmetic and the institutional reforms that shape the business environment.
Gas, electricity, transit, nuclear generation, ports and the transport corridors that connect Ukraine to its markets.
Damage assessment, recovery financing, construction capacity and the institutions being built to spend it well.
The Association Agreement, DCFTA, candidate status, accession negotiations and the regulatory convergence behind them.
Grain, oilseeds, the land market, export logistics and Ukraine's role in global food supply.
Demography, labour, migration, regional economies and the human context behind the numbers.
The ritual year, the symbols embroidered into cloth and painted onto eggs, the Carpathian practitioners and the philosophers — the older layer beneath modern Ukraine.
Independence Day and the other dates in Ukraine's calendar, each read against the state of the country in that year.
The primary sources this archive rests on. All of them official bodies or institutional data providers.
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