The Ukrainian Week

27 December, 2021	Breaking news	Ukraine crisis: how Putin feeds off anger over Nato’s eastward expansion Russian president’s attention-seeking diplomatic demands speak to long-held grievances
18 December, 2021	World	Rough seas How the November tragedy in the English Channel could change approaches to migration policy in the UK and the EU
16 December, 2021	World	Etienne de Poncins: "There is a war in Europe, it is in Donbas at the moment. We will make all efforts at every level to put this conflict to an end" The Ukrainian Week discussed bilateral relations between Ukraine and France, position of Paris on the arms selling to Ukraine and possibility of President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to Ukraine in the nearest future with French Ambassador to Ukraine
13 December, 2021	Breaking news	Ukraine blames Germany for ‘blocking’ Nato weapons supply Strategy of ‘not provoking Russia won’t work’, Kyiv defence minister Oleksii Reznikov tells
11 June, 2021	Breaking news	UEFA demands Ukraine make changes to 'political' jersey UEFA HAS DEMANDED that Ukraine make changes to their jersey for Euro 2020 to remove a “political” slogan that sparked protests from Russia
1 December, 2020	Breaking news	Ukraine may get NATO MAP in 2023 if several conditions met According to the expert, it is necessary to develop competent communication with those countries that do not yet want to hear about the MAP for Ukraine so that they want to discuss this issue
1 December, 2020	World	Melinda Simmons: "Although we left the EU, the values, on which we base our relationship with Ukraine, remain the same" The Ukrainian Week has discussed the newest strategic agreement between Kyiv and London, bilateral partnership, and trade perspectives with Ambassador of the United Kingdom in Ukraine
6 October, 2020	Breaking news	EU to discuss problems of fight against corruption in Ukraine during Ukraine-EU summit The European side intends within the framework of the EU-Ukraine summit to raise the issue of the independence of anti-corruption bodies and the state of fight against corruption in general
21 September, 2020	Breaking news	European officials warn Ukraine risks losing visa-free regime, 1.5 billion euros After three years of a hard-won visa-free regime with the Schengen Zone countries, European Union officials say Ukraine could lose it
29 June, 2020	Economics	Halfway to Europe Gains and losses from the institution of a free trade zone between Ukraine and the EU
17 May, 2020	Breaking news	Ukrainian workers struggle to reach the EU amid coronavirus restrictions While EU countries negotiate with Ukraine about special flights for seasonal workers, some people are coming to the bloc on their own, despite coronavirus restrictions. But they face many obstacles on the way
27 February, 2020	World	High hopes and (dis)-heartening Outcomes Who’s to party in 2020 – the Euro-Atlantic community, Ukraine and Georgia, or Russia?
13 February, 2020	Breaking news	Ukraine, EU ink agreement on EUR 25 mln assistance in digitalization Ukrainian Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk has said that Ukraine and the European Union (EU) have signed an agreement on assistance worth EUR 25 million in the sphere of digitalization
22 January, 2020	World	Ripples on water What future for the EU after Brexit?
28 December, 2019	World	Robert Brinkley: “Ukraine should ensure that Western countries are aware which prisoners are being held by Russia” During the 29th Economic Forum in Krynica-Zdrój (Poland) The Ukrainian Week talked with Robert Brinkley, Chairman of the Steering Committee of the Ukraine Forum, Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House about perspectives of Ukrainian relations with West and Russia
13 December, 2019	Breaking news	EU prolongs economic sanctions against Russia over Ukraine for another six months The EU confirms its support for Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity
2 November, 2019	Politics	Following a foreign script In international relations, Ukraine keeps reacting to foreign initiatives rather than coming up with its own
8 July, 2019	Breaking news	Ukraine-EU summit begins in Kyiv Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Donald Tusk and Jean-Claude Juncker will participate in the summit
23 June, 2019	Breaking news	Ukraine hosts biggest ever gay pride parade Ukrainian politicians and foreign diplomats joined thousands marching in a gay pride parade in Kiev on Sunday, the biggest and most peaceful ever in the former Soviet country
5 June, 2019	Breaking news	Ukraine's new president commits to EU, NATO membership Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy intends to keep Ukraine "on the path of European and Euro-Atlantic integration." He also said he is ready to negotiate with Russia to end the war in Eastern Ukraine
3 May, 2019	Breaking news	Zelenskiy advisors meet with EU ambassadors in Brussels Danyliuk is responsible for international relations, economics, financial and banking policies, while Riaboshapka – for law enforcement oversight and anti-corruption policies
10 April, 2019	Breaking news	Ukrainian business begins to see benefits of EU association agreement The Ukrainian economy is successfully integrating with the European Union, just one of many positive aspects of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement, which came into effect in September 2017 and is now offering real result
15 March, 2019	Breaking news	EU again demands Russia free Ukrainian POW sailors The EU demands that Russia release Ukrainian prisoners of war (POW) sailors who were attacked and captured in the Kerch Strait on November 25, 2018, according to a press release prepared in connection with the imposition of sanctions against eight Russians because of these events
20 February, 2019	World	The Ukrainian manifesto What should lie at the foundation of Ukraine’s integration into a united Europe so that later on there isn’t an Ukrexit?
6 February, 2019	Politics	The anatomy of Euro-optimism What unreasonable public expectations regarding the EU might get in the way of Ukraine’s eurointegration?
5 February, 2019	Politics	Content, not form What model of European integration Ukraine needs
2 November, 2018	World	Populist panic Do we see an understanding of the Russian threat in the European Union?
10 October, 2018	Breaking news	Hungary's foreign ministry has summoned Ukraine's ambassador to Budapest He said the summons was due to the existence of a "death list" of Transcarpathian Hungarians in Ukraine
4 October, 2018	Breaking news	Ukraine declares Hungary’s consul ‘persona non grata’ The Hungarian consul in Beregszász (Berehove) has been declared by Ukraine’s foreign ministry “persona non grata” and must leave the country within 72 hours, the ministry said on its website on Thursday
26 September, 2018	Breaking news	Ukrainian corn exports to EU up 2.8% to 1.19 million Ukraine currently stands as the number one exporter to the EU, a title it has held for the past few years
14 September, 2018	World	What’s wrong with values? Why the principles of the existence of society become empty abstractions
18 April, 2016		On the referendum This Wednesday, April 6, the Netherlands voted against the association agreement with Ukraine. Here, I will bring forward a few observations and conclusions
21 February, 2015		What was the minority position towards the Russian aggression has become the majority one in the EU. The main driver of this was Russia itself The Ukrainian Week spoke to Ulrich Speck, the EU expert and visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe in Brussels, about internal contradictions inside the EU, attitude to Russia and the role of Germany in preserving the unity of the European Unity.
4 January, 2015	World	Vaira Vike-Freiberga: “The most important element for the future of Ukraine is what Ukrainians do themselves” The Ukrainian Week talked to Vaira Vike-Freiberga, the sixth President of Latvia, about the EU’s strategies towards Ukraine, differences between new and old member-states and ways to counter Russian propaganda
4 January, 2015		Reforming Ukraine More than ever Ukraine needs statesmen with a long term vision looking beyond the horizon of their current mandate
21 August, 2014	Economics	Seeking Their Place in the Sun Ukraine has strongly diversified its exports in terms of goods and destinations over the years of independence. But local companies must do more to promote their products in new promising markets
12 August, 2014	World	Rebecca Harms: European leaders and US President Obama have to be clear that they do not accept the zigzag policy of Mr. Putin Rebecca Harms, the President of the Greens-European Free Alliance group in the European Parliament, is one of EMPs who watch the situation in Ukraine closely. During her latest visit to Ukraine, The Ukrainian Week took a chance to speak to her shortly after her return from Eastern Ukraine.
5 November, 2013	Politics	Dangerous Games Postponed Association Agreement signing may become an effective tool to put pressure on Yanukovych, but will make Ukraine more vulnerable to Russia
4 November, 2013		EU-Russia Showdown The EU may be a more direct challenge to Moscow’s ambitions than NATO
2 November, 2013		Facing the Crisis of Democracy The failures of democracy need precise and critical, not diplomatic comments
1 November, 2013		Bidding Farewell to Russia Ukraine will remain a friend to a democratic Russia in the future. Now, Ukraine and Russia are bound to bid farewell to one another
21 October, 2013	Politics	Usurpation in the Name of Europe Under the cover of European integration, the government has pushed lobbied initiatives through parliament
7 October, 2013	Politics	Back to Europe Project In his exclusive interview for The Ukrainian Week, Lithuania’s Prime-Minister Algirdas Butkevičius talks about the importance of the Association Agreement for Ukraine at the Vilnius Summit and the impact of European integration on his country
4 October, 2013	News	*Karl De Gucht*: We will speed up Association Agreement’s provisional application as much as possible European Commissioner for Trade Karl De Gucht discussed trade and economic aspects of the impending Association Agreement and progress toward its signature during his meetings with the Ukrainian authorities on October 1-2, EU Co-Operation News reports
3 October, 2013	News	*Bronislaw Komorowski*: Ukraine signing EU agreement would be 'success for all’ President Bronislaw Komorowski has told Polish Radio he is optimistic that Ukraine will sign an association agreement with the EU at the Eastern Partnership summit in Vilnius in late November, Polskie Radio reports
1 October, 2013	Officially	The Ukrainian Parliament should finalise the creation of preconditions for signing the Association Agreement with the European Union Parliamentary Assembly's written declaration No.554
24 September, 2013		The Last Word Belongs to Merkel How the September 22 Bundestag election will affect Berlin’s policy towards Ukraine
20 September, 2013		Lithuania’s Foreign Minister on EU-Ukraine Relations Linas Linkevičius: Countries are free to choose whom they want to join. Their decision depends on arguments. When someone lacks arguments, temptation arises to use pressure and blackmailing
10 September, 2013	Politics	The Schengen’s Kafkaesque Castles The excesses of the EU visa bureaucracy discourage the most pro-European part of Ukrainian society from gaining experience that is different from post-Soviet realities
2 September, 2013	News	*The New York Times*: USA and the EU should articulate a coherent policy towards Russia’s neighboring states “Russia’s increasing pressure on its neighbor-states means that Washington and Brussels are still unable to articulate a coherent policy towards those states”, - writes Stephen Blank, senior fellow for Russia at the American Foreign Policy Council, in Washington
23 August, 2013	Politics	In Exile Despite Viktor Yanukovych’s fear of Yulia Tymoshenko, whom he evidently considers his main political rival, he may agree to let her receive medical treatment in Germany. On one hand, this would sharply increase the regime’s chances of signing an Association Agreement with the EU, while on the other, it would create new obstacles for the opposition
14 August, 2013	News	*Amanda Paul*: Ukraine needs to end its “yo-yo” behavior and step onto the reform “treadmill”
14 August, 2013		Under the Common Wealth Banner British Ambassador in Ukraine Simon Smith: “Progressive association with the EU, its standards and practices will be profoundly beneficial for Ukraine and will help it unlock its potential”
6 August, 2013	Politics	Caught in a Zeitnot Developments in Ukraine and the lack of effect from the standard techniques of the Russian World have unnerved Vladimir Putin. This may push the Kremlin to radical steps to disrupt the signing of the Association Agreement and DCFTA with the EU and to eliminate the threat of a possible shift in Ukraine’s foreign policy after the 2015 presidential election
6 August, 2013	Politics	James Sherr: “People governing Ukraine are not going to get it closer to Europe, and Russia is taking a full advantage of this” Chatham House’s James Sherr speaks on Russian diplomacy and the Kremlin’s possible efforts to hamper Ukraine’s real European integration
2 August, 2013	News	Lithuanian EP representative: Yulia Tymoshenko issue moving forward but Ukraine behind with key reforms The issue of imprisoned ex-Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko is moving towards a resolution but Ukraine has to step up other reforms reports 15min.lt
1 August, 2013	News	BlogActive: there are good news in the EU-Ukraine association prospects Despite Kremlin’s attempts, Ukraine has hopes to sign an association agreement in November
30 July, 2013	News	*Günter Verheugen*: with association agreement Ukraine will no longer be in a limbo between the EU and Eurasian Union Günter Verheugen (SDP), a former European Commission vice president sees “double-standards” in the German government's handling of Ukraine's bid to conclude an association agreement with the EU, EurActive reports.
29 July, 2013	News	The EU realizes that Ukraine’s government “improves” business climate in words Brussels criticizes Ukrainian government for replacing real actions with “promises of further bilateral discussions” after the first round of the Ukraine-EU Business Climate Dialogue
22 July, 2013	News	Eurasia Review on Russian aggression and Ukraine’s accession An Association Agreement would help Ukraine along the rocky path towards democracy and away from the specter of Sovietism, claims Nicholas Kaufmann. Otherwise, Ukraine will return under Putin’s fold
16 July, 2013	News	The Economist: Volyn remains one the darkest chapters in the Polish-Ukrainian history, and one of the most misunderstood On July 14 Poland’s President Bronisław Komorowski visited Ukraine for a memorial service for the victims of the Volyn tragedy in 1943-44. He was joined by Ukraine’s Vice Premier Kostiantyn Hryshchenko.
4 July, 2013	News	*Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius*: The Association Agreement is not just technical negotiations with just another partner; it is a geopolitical process
4 July, 2013	News	*EESC expert on Eastern Partnership*: “We are not planning to marry, we are planning on just dating.” The Eastern Partnership was a “model of EU integration without membership” but that it needed success stories in order to have a future, said Laurynas Kasčiūnas, an analyst at the Eastern Europe Studies Centre in Vilnius
4 July, 2013	News	*Alexander Motyl*: It is naive of any Western policymaker to believe that after Ukraine joins the Association Agreement the EU will have greater influence over Yanukovych Ukraine should be strategically anchored inside Europe and use the long drawn-out ratification process by 28 EU members and the European parliament to secure a deal on Tymoshenko, cites GlobalPost
4 July, 2013	News	*Taras Kuzio*: The US Senate Resolution 165 on Ukraine has nothing in common with the Magnitsky Bill on Russia and does not threaten Kiev Kiev knows it has little to fear from the US Senate Resolution 165 on Ukraine, recently introduced and pending in the Foreign Relations Committee; it does not threaten sanctions and has nothing in common with the Magnitsky Bill on Russia, writes Taras Kuzio for the GlobalPost
2 July, 2013	News	*David Cameron* believes that Ukraine, once known as the bread basket of the Soviet Union, should be admitted to the EU During his visit to Kazakhstan British prime minister said the EU should extend its membership deeper into the former Soviet Union, calling for its borders to run from the Atlantic to the Urals, The Guardian reports.
3 May, 2013	News	*Amanda Paul*: ECHR’s decision will not lead to sanctions against Ukrainian officials at this time
1 May, 2013	Politics	Petr Mareš: “The harder a country tries and the more efforts it takes the more assistance it will receive from us” Czech Republic, as well as all the Visegrád countries would like to see Ukraine sign the Agreement soon
30 April, 2013	World	Some Tips for Supporters of Ukraine’s European Integration In order to avoid continued manipulation by the Ukrainian government, the West should focus on direct contacts with Ukrainian society more, and thus form its own concept of the processes in Ukraine
30 April, 2013	News	*MEP*: Tymoshenko is a victim and a hostage of selective justice, not a political prisoner
30 April, 2013	News	*Former Prime Minister of Ukraine Was Arbitrarily Detained*
30 April, 2013	History	A Difficult Return To regain its status as a natural part of Europe, Ukraine needs to break free from Russian and Soviet colonial heritage
29 April, 2013		Good News Is Not Enough In the face of a deep economic crisis in Ukraine, the achievements in Vilnius will matter to all Ukrainians
29 April, 2013	World	Jacek Saryusz-Wolski: “Our standards in human rights and democracy are what matters. If a country wants to come closer to the EU and sign up, it should fulfill these. Otherwise, sorry” Armenia, Georgia and Moldova have much better chances of signing the Association Agreement in Vilnius than Ukraine at this point. But things may change. The ball is on the Ukrainian side
26 April, 2013		Ukraine in the EU: Asset or Liability? Ukraine's joining the EU would dramatically and irreversibly change the political landscape of Europe, end the division of Europe and close the saga of the Iron Curtain and the Cold War
25 April, 2013	News	Štefan Füle about the Association Agreement: there are still some outstanding issues that require additional attention During his meeting with Andriy Klyuyev, Secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defence Council EU- Commissioner emphasise that there are still several questions for signing Association Agreement remain unsolved.
25 April, 2013	News	PACE confirms the powers of Batkivshchyna’s Andriy Shevchenko replacing Serhiy Vlasenko in the Ukrainian delegation PACE confirms the powers of Batkivshchyna MP Andriy Shevchenko replacing Serhiy Vlasenko in the Ukrainian delegation, The Ukrainian Week’s journalist reports from Strasbourg. Vlasenko was stripped of his MP mandate earlier.
25 April, 2013	News	*Leonidas Donskis*: Germany and France can become a problem for signing of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement The expansion of the EU thus far was somewhat problematic in terms of reconciliation of political sensitivities; therefore, Germany and France can be against the Agreement.
24 April, 2013	News	*MEP Marek Siwiec*: visa facilitation policy is of crucial importance to convince Ukrainians in importance of EU-Ukraine Free Trade Agreement and Association Agreements
24 April, 2013	Officially	The Parliamentary Assembly Supports Ukraine on the Path to European Integration Written declaration No. 540 \| Doc. 13184 \| 23 April 2013
23 April, 2013	News	Ukraine is far behind fulfilling Association Agreement deadline, experts claim The deadline for fulfilment of 11 requirements for signing the Association Agreement is May 15. Still, neither experts, nor politicians or citizens truly believe that Ukraine will manage to meet this deadline.
22 April, 2013	News	The powers of Ukrainian delegation are questioned at PACE Pieter Omtzigt, Dutch politician, member of the Christian Democratic Appeal and member of the EPP Group at the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly, questions the powers of Ukrainian delegation to PACE after Serhiy Vlasenko, lawyer for Yulia Tymoshenko, was stripped of his MP mandate, reports The Ukrainian Week’s correspondent from Strasbourg.
19 March, 2013	News	*Amanda Paul*: Ukraine's leadership is totally predictable in one respect - it fails to deliver on its commitments “After the summit held on February 25 in Brussels the EU-Ukraine relations are further deteriorating,” Amanda Paul, Policy Analyst and Programme Executive at The European Policy Centre, argues in her blog on Turkish newspaper Today`s Zaman.