Catch up quickly with the stories from Central and Eastern Europe that matter. Russia’s war on Ukraine The European Council agreed to open accession talks with...
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After a stellar 2019, 2020 was for Ukraine a year of dashed hopes. 2021 will see the country return to a variation on the pre-2019 norm: balancing between reform and...
Ukraine has pursued reform in many sectors over the past 12 months, but recent decisions by the Constitutional Court have called into question the country’s...
The European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrel, last week paid a long-anticipated visit to Kyiv, to meet with Ukrainian...
Ukraine’s adoption, on May 13, of a law to safeguard its clean-up of the banking sector, unlocked a large IMF loan. It was about time: investors had fled the country en...
After just six months on the job, the government of Oleksiy Honcharuk, Ukraine’s youngest-ever prime minister, was dismissed this week and replaced with a new executive...
In 2020, the Ukrainian economy will be challenged by an external economic environment that may bring higher risks of a global slowdown and trade tensions. However, the...
The net profit of the Ukraine’s state-owned PrivatBank increased to 27.4 billion hryvnias (983.6 million euros) during the first nine months of the year, 5.4 times more...
The Court of Appeal of England and Wales has endorsed an appeal by PrivatBank, Ukraine’s largest commercial bank, allowing the company to claim three billion US dollars...
Ukraine’s prime minister, Oleksiy Honcharuk, has denied that his government is negotiating a compromise with oligarch Igor Kolomoisky regarding PrivatBank, the largest...
The Ukrainian banking market is probably the most dramatic boom-bust story in the CEE region. From 2000 onwards, the ratio of loans to GDP rose from around 10 per cent...
Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s newly inaugurated president, has come under heavy criticism from investors for appointing Andriy Bogdan, the former personal lawyer of...
