Ukraine’s CSOs assessed the pace of EU integration reforms
The report has become a first outcome of a civil society’s monitoring of the implementation of the EU-Ukraine Association Agenda. The project is supported by the International Renaissance Foundation (OSI Network).
«Results of the civil society’s monitoring are a touchstone to identify if EU- and reform-friendly rhetoric is matched by the real actions taken by the government”, comments director of the project, the head of the board of the Ukrainian Centre for Independent Political ResearchYulia Tyshchenko. “Indeed, the European integration is not an abstract foreign policy activity, but an integral element of the internal policy”, she adds.
Conclusions of the expert monitoring (March – June 2010) say that the Ukraine’s new administration has changed its EU integration valuepriorities, moving from political and social reforms to economic co-operation with the EU.
Lower attention to democratization and more emphasis on economic and technological aspects of the EU integration weaken the roleplayed by of the Association Agenda as a catalyst of Ukraine’s internal reforms, the report says.
The full text of the report, general introduction and an executive summary are available on a blog of Ukraine’s Civil Society’s Monitoring of the Implementation of EU-Ukraine Association Agenda.
Background
The first stage of the civil society’s monitoring is a part of a project «Implementation of the EU-Ukraine Association Agenda: experts’ view» performed in March-June, 2010. The project is implemented by a consortium of Ukrainian think tanks, including The Ukrainian Centre forIndependent Political Research, The Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting and The Centre for Political and Legal Reforms. The media support is provided by the international NGO “Internews Ukraine”.
The project is supported by the International Renaissance Foundation.
It is implemented in co-operation with the Civil Society Expert Council under the Ukrainian section of the EU-Ukraine Cooperation Committee.
