The EU has been one of the largest trade partners for so called Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries, namely Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. Commodity turnover of these countries with the EU vary between 30% and 50% of total, but their access to the EU market is less...

While EU and US sanctions against Russia over its aggression in Ukraine, and Russia’s counter-sanctions, are much discussed due to their evident political significance, less attention has been given to Russia’s punitive sanctions against the three Eastern European states – Ukraine, Moldova...

Kiev is not so far away from Brussels as one might expect. Ukraine already performs quite well when compared to the other countries in the queue for entry into the EU. Especially the fiscal and external debt figures are better than in other countries. On the negative side, there is a...

Im Jahr 2006 wird das Bruttoinlandsprodukt in der Ukraine nach Prognose des DIW Berlin mit 3 % und damit vergleichsweise gering wachsen. Nach einer fünfjährigen wirtschaftlichen Erholungsphase in den Jahren 2000 bis 2004 mit durchschnittlichen jährlichen Wachstumsraten von 7,4 % erlebt das...

Die Ukraine - nach wie vor eines der ärmsten Länder Europas - erreichte in den letzten Jahren ein kräftiges Wirtschaftswachstum. Von 2000 bis 2002 stieg das reale Bruttoinlandsprodukt um durchschnittlich 6,6 % pro Jahr, und im laufenden Jahr werden wohl fast 8 % erreicht. Im internationalen...

To date, prices of gas and other energy used by households in Ukraine have been generously subsidized by the Government. However, suppressed energy prices lead to excessive use of gas and an inefficient level of investment into energy savings. In addition, Ukraine’s dependence on imported gas...

The 2004 Presidential election campaign has left a deep effect on the budget process 2004-2005, which came about in three steps: (1) In the course of amending the 2004 budget, privatization receipts were misused to finance higher minimum pension payments, raising net public liabilities in the...