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Public policy expert on Ukraine's European integration
Ukraine's path to the EU runs through negotiations in Brussels, but also through every company that will have to work by European rules. I work on both sides: I help the government prepare for membership and advise businesses on EU rules and opportunities in the European market. Over more than 11 years in public service, international consulting and think tanks, I have learned both how policy decisions are made and what it takes to make them work in practice. As a Policy Fellow at EPIK, I write about how Ukraine can benefit economically from integration before accession and contribute to a stronger, more secure Europe.
EPIK
Commentary on the European Commission's package "Preparing for a wider Union". It is the EU's first systemic answer to the question of its own readiness for enlargement: solid, but unfinished in places. One issue is conspicuous by its absence: reconstruction.
EPIK, policy brief
Proposes a permanent Verkhovna Rada representation in Brussels, starting as a two-MP pilot, so that Ukraine's parliament can track EU legislation early, explain implementation constraints to MEPs and close the oversight gap in the accession process.
The Kyiv Independent
After the opening of the Fundamentals cluster, the burden of proof shifts to Kyiv to show it can implement thousands of legal changes while at war, while Brussels must open the remaining clusters quickly and tie financial incentives to concrete progress.
The questions I work on, in policy and in research.
How the Union's enlargement method works in practice: the revised methodology, clusters and chapters, negotiating frameworks, Enlargement Reports and…
Screening, the Fundamentals cluster, conditionality and the sequencing of reforms from candidate status to an Accession Treaty. Tracking what Kyiv…
Designing accession models that deliver benefits before membership without creating a permanent second tier: sectoral integration into customs,…
The machinery a candidate needs to become a member state: the coordinating role of the Government Office, parliamentary oversight and a Verkhovna…
Implementation and review of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement, the DCFTA and its trade parameters, the transition to the EU's common commercial…
The field of his doctoral research: the institutional design of the European Neighbourhood Policy and the Eastern Partnership, their limits for…
Ukrainian Radio / “Today. Evening” programme
Lviv · Lviv Bureau of European Integration, within the EUcation programme run with Lund University, the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law and the Ukrainian Catholic University, funded by the Swedish Institute
Kyiv, European HUB · European HUB, with the support of the International Renaissance Foundation
Rome, Palazzo Montecitorio (Chamber of Deputies) · Chamber of Deputies of Italy, Italy-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Group
EPIK has published my commentary on the European Commission's package "Preparing for a wider Union". It is the EU's first systemic answer to the question of its own readiness for enlargement: solid, but unfinished in places. One issue is conspicuous by its absence: reconstruction.
On 6 October the European Commission presents its Communication on preparing the EU for enlargement. The draft leaked by POLITICO shows accession turning into a cascade of gradual-integration decisions, with safeguards running for years after entry. What the document gets right, and four things that would make it stronger.
Short reactions to the news of Ukraine's accession process, mostly in Ukrainian.
I am open to research cooperation, expert comment for the media and speaking invitations on EU enlargement and Ukraine's integration.
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