The Association Agreement, DCFTA, candidate status, accession negotiations and the regulatory convergence behind them.
The most valuable thing Ukraine can obtain from the European Union in trade terms is not a tariff cut. It is mutual recognition that a Ukrainian…
Ukrainian policy direction reversed in 2004 and again in 2010. It has not reversed since 2014, and the reason is not that the politics settled…
Food safety alignment is the chapter that produces the most immediate commercial results, because each completed step opens a specific export permission.
A candidate country has to bring tens of thousands of pages of law into its own legal order. The obstacle is not willingness; it is drafting…
From 11 June, Ukrainian biometric passport holders enter the Schengen area without a visa. The tourism story is the obvious one. The trade-in-services story is bigger…
In June 2017 Ukrainians gained the right to travel to the Schengen area without a visa. The benchmarks behind it were a reform programme, and the…
A free trade agreement is not one decision. It is thousands of separate ones, product by product, and the interesting parts are in the annexes.
The EU free trade area entered force in 2016. The tariff schedule changed on day one and almost nothing else did, because tariffs were never the…
The Association Agreement is remembered as a political document because of what happened around its signature. It is actually a thousand pages of technical obligation with…
Expectations of what outside support can accomplish are routinely set far above what any external actor is capable of. Separating the categories makes both the support…
Two thousand one hundred pages signed on 27 June. Most commentary treats it as a geopolitical statement. For a business, it is something more useful: a…
Eight days before the summit, the government suspended preparations to sign the Association Agreement. The stated reason was economic. The economics were real — and were…
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