Source: FDI Markets

Key Trends in 2014

Edited article ‘ Corrupting Civil Society in Post-Maidan Ukraine’ by Mikhail Minakov , Associate Professor/Docent in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, and president of the Foundation for Good Politics.

Major Ukrainian political institutions have undergone quite a considerable evolution:

President: The post of President remains the most influential post in Ukrainian politics. The President now controls:

1. Define the Issue. People may not need to know your long-term goals. Get right to the point about what you need and why it is good public policy that the person would want to support.
2. Know the players. Which arguments will work with which people.
3. Know the committees. Note whether they have clear or shared jurisdictions and what their different prejudices or constituencies are. Note that the arguments that work in the first committee may not be very powerful in the second.
4. Know the public policy rationale behind current policy.

Professional Public Policy Advocates

Our profession is characterized by a lack of standards for training and practice, disorganisation and disunity among practitioners,a lack of recognition of the profession among clients and the public. These circumstances will only improve if practitioners unite and form professional associations to impose discipline and standardization and to achieve recognition through education, legislation and public relations.

The Heads of State or Government and the representatives of the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Azerbaijan, the Republic of Belarus, Georgia, the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine, the representatives of the European Union and the Heads of State or Government and representatives of its Member States met in Riga on 21-22 May 2015.

Breakdown by Countries (Individuals from 17 EU countries targeted)

Poland (18), United Kingdom (9), Sweden (8), Estonia (8), Germany (7), Lithuania (7) Latvia (5), Romania (5), Czech Republic (4), Denmark (4), France (4), Netherlands (3), Belgium (2), Spain (2), Bulgaria (1), Finland (1), Greece (1)

Poland + Baltic States= 38 individuals 42% of total list

Belgium (2)

1. Guy Verhofstadt
2. Mark Demesmaeker

Bulgaria (1)

To date, the local elites have had no time to focus on national branding due to the country’s economic  climate: Ukraine's economy contracted by a stunning 17.6 percent in the first quarter of 2015 compared with a year earlier, when the separatist conflict erupted. In 2014, Ukraine lost approximately 20 percent of its economy with industrial sector output in Donetsk and Luhansk regions falling by 30 to 40 percent. For average Ukrainians, that has translated into a drop in living standards.

TI’s Corruption Perceptions Index ranks countries and territories based on how corrupt their public sector is perceived to be. A country or territory’s score indicates the perceived level of public sector corruption on a scale of 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean). The score for each country below is indicated in parenthesis: