With the aim of shaping a sustainable reconstruction process in Ukraine and under the motto ‘United in Defence. United in Recovery. Stronger together’, the Ukraine Recovery Conference was held in Berlin in June 2024 and thus took place within the EU for the first time. Germany and Ukraine were joint hosts and worked closely together to develop the innovative, four-dimensional structure of the event, which addressed the economic, human, local and EU dimensions.
With over 2000 participants in total, civil society was strongly represented alongside government, financial and economic institutions. It played an active role in shaping the conference, which is a hint at its importance in driving forward reform processes and the democratisation of Ukraine. In addition, local and regional actors were represented for the first time in a leading role, which is due not least to the decentralisation reform that has initiated significant political, economic and social changes in Ukraine with German support since 2014.
What differences were there in terms of structure and content compared to the previous reconstruction conferences? What main agreements were reached and what could Italy, where next year's reconstruction conference will take place, already take on?
We discuss these and other questions with our guest:
Nataliya Pryhornytska is a political scientist, Ukraine expert and co-founder of the Open Platform, which aims, among other things, to involve the Ukrainian “global community” in the reconstruction process.
The moderator is Ljudmyla Melnyk, research associate at IEP.
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With its podcast “UkraineMEMO: Interviews, Analysis, Policy Advice”, IEP presents new perspectives on Ukraine. With guests from Germany and Ukraine, Ljudmyla Melnyk and Nataliya Pryhornytska discuss recent developments and long-term trends in the areas of Ukrainian politics, economy and society and thus provide an insight into events on the ground that are moving the country. Ukraine's relationship with Germany and the EU is always kept in mind.
The podcast is produced as part of the “UA Transformation Lab” project and is funded by the Federal Foreign Office.
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