Olga Pyshchulina, Leading Expert, Social and Gender Programmes
Vasyl Yurchyshyn, Director, Economic Programmes
For decades, the European model of socio-economic growth and development has played a decisive role in the processes of convergence and prosperity for citizens and countries of the European Union. For Ukraine, taking into account modern realities, the tasks of convergence require significant and sometimes radical institutional changes. Such institutional changes are required, in particular, to overcome the risks of divergence in the dynamics of the development of the EU and Ukraine, whilst strengthening of these risks may lead not to convergence, but to divergence, including impact and consequences of large-scale military operations.
There are grounds to assert that a significant improvement in competitiveness and well-being is possible only with significant transformations in the public administration system, so the immediate reforms should start in this domain. It is likely that a critical mass of comprehending this has already been formed — despite the continuation of aggression, the revival of legislative and institutional processes particularly in the social vector gives grounds for optimistic forecasts regarding the establishment of Ukraine as a state governed by the rule of law, in which the protection of individual rights and freedoms is of the highest value.
