Ukraine has embarked on an economic transition the outcome of which will determine the country’s future. Other states have traveled this path already, but not in conditions as challenging as the ones we face. We are burdened with a legacy that includes 74 years of totalitarian rule and dysfunctional command economics, 19 years of inadequate reforms and sclerotic leadership and four years of outright kleptomania under former President Yanukovych. Critically, Russia’s undeclared war has caused humanitarian and economic devastation on a vast scale.
The conditions for launching a program of reform designed to create a modern, free and prosperous European democracy …read more
Source: European Voice
