Medvedev echoes Putin’s dangerous Ukraine obsession
The new pastime of the Russian elite appears to be penning abusive essays about Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin set the tone in summer 2021 with a 5000
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Ukraine hopes industrial parks can attract international investors
Ukraine is looking to follow in the footsteps of the region’s most economically successful countries as it seeks to create a more attractive investment environment. One current priority focus is the development of industrial parks offering a range of incentives…
Old problems threaten Ukraine’s new Bureau of Economic Security
Ukraine is currently in the process of reforming the country’s tax police. While there was much initial optimism earlier this year over the creation of a Bureau of Economic Security, familiar concerns are now creeping in as this new agency…
Energy Crisis and Conference on the Future of Europe
This week our Beyond the Byline Podcast focuses on the Energy Crisis and the effects that this is having on the economy of Europe, especially in terms of impact on the low-middle income classes. I’m joined by EURACTIV’s Energy and…
Grappling with Europe’s racist colonial past must go beyond history books
This article is part of our special report (Anti)-discrimination in Europe: Where next?. Teaching colonialism is a first step to tackle structural racism in Europe, but inequality will not be eradicated unless addressed in education as a whole, according to…
Furious Macron scraps UK migrant talks after ‘unacceptable’ letter
France on Friday (26 November) scrapped planned talks with the UK about migrant crossings after an “
Open Skies agreement will deepen Ukraine’s European integration
With Europe facing the prospect of a winter gas crisis, media coverage of the annual EU-Ukraine summit in Kyiv this week understandably focused on energy issues. However, the meeting also produced a landmark aviation agreement that has potentially major practical…
Ukraine flirts with disastrous return to gas price caps
With a record harvest and high international prices for agricultural goods, iron ore, and steel, this year should be one of strong economic growth for Ukraine, but it is not. The International Monetary Fund has just forecast that the global…
Russia is the world’s leading exporter of instability
We live in an era of great geopolitical transformation. As the rules and certainties of the past are exposed as outdated and discarded as redundant, the only thing we can forecast with any degree of confidence is more instability. This…
France welcomes Germany’s new ‘pro-European’ coalition agreement
The coalition deal struck between three parties that will form Germany’s next government is very much in line with France’s own ambitions and priorities, including its vision of a more federal EU. EURACTIV France reports. The 24 November agreement between…