Ukraine and the EU held their third round of consultations on four-year, €50B funding.

As reported by the Ministry of Economy, the key topics of discussion were public administration reform, green transition and environmental protection, digitalization, reform of the justice system, corruption and money laundering elimination, state asset management and privatization, energy development, overall recovery architecture, regional policy, and decentralization.

A meeting of the Interdepartmental Working Group was also held as part of consultations with EU representatives. The participants discussed the privatization of non-strategic state-owned enterprises, the implementation of corporate reform, energy, justice reform, and general donor coordination and agreed on the schedule for further meetings and the terms of approval for the key stages of the plan’s preparation.

“We have agreed with our partners that the Ukraine Plan should become the basis for the further involvement of donors and the expansion of participants in the reconstruction and economic recovery of Ukraine“, said Economy Minister Yuliya Svyridenko.