{"id":1439,"date":"2019-04-05T10:17:24","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T10:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/?p=1439"},"modified":"2019-04-04T15:33:53","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T15:33:53","slug":"new-policy-brief-evaluating-the-eus-assistance-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/?p=1439","title":{"rendered":"New policy brief evaluating the EU\u2019s Assistance to Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/EU-STRAT-Policy-Brief-No.-5.pdf\"> <br><a href=\"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/EU-STRAT-Policy-Brief-No.-5.pdf\"><\/a><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/EU-STRAT-Policy-Brief-No.-5.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Title:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/EU-STRAT-Policy-Brief-No.-5.pdf\">Fit for Purpose? Evaluating the EU\u2019s Assistance to Ukraine<\/a><br><strong>Authors:<\/strong>\u00a0Kataryna Wolczuk and Darius Zeruolis<br><strong>Release date:<\/strong>\u00a0March 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Ukraine opted for closer economic and political ties with the European Union (EU) when it signed an Association Agreement (AA) in 2014. The agreement, which includes a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (DCFTA), is a bilateral agreement that regulates relations between the EU and Ukraine; it also contains a free-trade area. The agreement covers a large swathe of the EU acquis \u2013 the accumulated body of acts and court decisions that constitute EU law. As well as removing (or lowering) tariffs and quotas, the AA-DCFTA will lead to the alignment of Ukraine\u2019s regulatory frameworks with those of the EU.2 This process of \u2018legal approximation\u2019, whereby EU rules are incorporated into national laws and institutions are created or reformed to administer those rules, is often viewed as a technocratic, \u2018low-politics\u2019 process. However, it does require strong functioning institutions to enact a plethora of commitments, something that Ukraine has yet to develop. As it is, the AA commitments exceed Ukraine\u2019s capacity to implement them. In recognition of this, the EU has stepped up its assistance to Ukraine since 2014. This paper will provide an overview of the support provided by the EU since 2014 with a view to assessing its effectiveness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title:\u00a0Fit for Purpose? Evaluating the EU\u2019s Assistance to UkraineAuthors:\u00a0Kataryna Wolczuk and Darius ZeruolisRelease date:\u00a0March 2019 Ukraine opted for closer economic and political ties with the European Union (EU) when it signed an Association Agreement (AA) in 2014. The agreement, which includes a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (DCFTA), is a bilateral agreement that regulates&hellip;<a href=\"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/?p=1439\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New policy brief evaluating the EU\u2019s Assistance to Ukraine<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1439"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1454,"href":"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions\/1454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}