First delegation of members of the European Parliament has arrived to Kyiv for the project “Europe in Ukraine”

In the year 2018 organization “Ukrainian European Perspective” has launched project “Europe in Ukraine”. On the 18^th of March first delegation has arrived to Kyiv to start work in the terrain.

“Ukrainian European Perspective” is an international non-governmental organization, registered on April 7^th, 2011 in Prague. The main objective of the UEP is to promote European integration of Ukraine, the development of cultural, trade and economic cooperation of Ukraine and EU. UEP strives to unite all the people, who are not indifferent, regardless of their citizenship, in order to attract attention of the European society to the real situation in Ukraine. During the last 7 years of its existence with the help of Czech and Ukrainian benefactors, as well as activists and volunteers from Ukraine, Czech Republic and other countries, UEP has provided help to Ukraine for the sum estimated at over 4 million Czech crouns.

However, financial and material help only constitute one aspect of the work of UEP. We see Ukraine’s potential to become a developed European country. On the other hand, we also see the problems, obstructing this – corruption, non-effective judiciary system, double standards and inability to fulfill the obligations for successful cooperation with the European Union. Those problems are systematic and cannot be resolved with the help provided in Czech crouns.

Therefore it has been decided to launch the project „Europe in Ukraine“ and to involve the members of the European Parliament. Together with The Group for the support of Ukraine, we plan to work on building Europe in Ukraine from within. The Group will focus on the next aspects, in order to cover the gap between Ukraine and its ambitions of the membership in the EU:

• acceleration of the reforms, specifically the economic ones – focused to progressively abolish monopolies, limit the roles of oligarchs in the economy of the country; as well in the banking and in the financial segments – in order to fight money laundering and tax avoidance
• working with private and national investments into the social and economic infrastructures of Ukraine – with mandatory feedback and control of the investments usage
• carrying out reforms in the judiciary system and in the area of the public administration, to fight corruption and organized crime
• carrying out reforms in the area of elections – basing on the specific road-maps with clearly defined goals, in order to improve the basis of elections and to guarantee implementation of the norms already existing in the UE
• integrating Ukraine into European transport system
• partnership in the industrial area
• increasing Ukraine’s participation in the EU programs
• working towards successful implementation of the visa-free policy by Ukraine and towards avoidance of applying of the mechanism of temporary suspension of the visa-free policy in the future
• promoting unity among the member countries of the EU in maintaining collective pressure upon Russia in order to resolve the conflict in Eastern Ukraine
• supporting the monitoring mission of the OSCE

The Group in the project „Europe in Ukraine“ will be working towards effective creation of the appropriate conditions for the close political association and economic integration of Ukraine into the European Union.

On the 18^th of March, the first delegation of the Group has arrived in Kyiv, in order to be conducting meetings and negotiations until the 20^th of March.

Working visits and meetings within the agenda of the “Europe in Ukraine” has already started.

We expect to see the first results of the cooperation on the 20th of March.