The European integration Project Manager at the Centre of Policy and Legal Reform joined the discussion on the state of reforms and implementation of the Eastern Partnership policy over the past two years, which took place in Brussels.
The participants of the press conference expressed their opinions on the beginning of a new experience of competitive selection of candidates for the position of a CCU judge, the problem of vacant positions, and the procedure for forming the CCU in terms of European integration
We publish the results of the online-conference «Preserving and Developing Ukraine’s Democracy: What are the Current and the Future Challenges of Democratic Transformation?»
Leading Ukrainian think tanks got together in Brussels to provide cutting edge analysis of developments in Ukraine on 5 March, 2014.
There are ongoing problems in the relationship between the Ukrainian government and the citizens of Ukraine. Some of this is directly related to the actions of the government, but to blame the current administration for all the problems of the Ukrainian state would be a historic simplification. The inheritance of the history of modern Ukraine is a burden to borne by everyone living and working in Ukraine. This is not unique for Ukraine, for that matter. Every state is a sum of its historical parts.
The Roadmap was approved at the National Reforms Concillium (March 5-6, 2010). Prepared based on the Results of Regional Discussion of the Research "Modrnisation of Ukraine: Reforms Priorities Define".
Statement of non-governmental organizations on need to codify electoral legislation
Improvement of electoral legislation remains an important issue of political agenda. Making changes to the electoral legislation is an integral part of Ukraine’s preparations for signing EU-Ukraine Association Agreement.
The legal system of Ukraine is an ongoing reform process. This cliché is particularly apparent when it comes to business regulation. Ukraine has reformed many of the laws in this area(for example see the Tax Code, the Customs Code, the Law on the Protection of the Rights of Consumers, the Law on Market Oversight, the Law on Sanitary Oversight and the Law on the General Principles of State Control Oversight Activity in Economic Sphere) but little has been done to reform the application of regulatory reforms.
The leaders of the member states of the European Union (EU) met in Stockholm, Sweden in 2009 to discuss the future political progress in the area of justice, freedom and security. Despite the ever-present financial crisis, the meeting did produce an action plan, the Stockholm Programme (sp), that was meant to advance ‘people’s Europe’ into the new decade. Included in the action plan was a section concerning the protection of citizen’s rights within the information society.