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Ukraine’s Recovery Has a Labor Problem

For decades, discussions about economic growth have focused on investment, exports, and industrial capacity. However, in Ukraine, one factor may be even more decisive: people. It is demographic challenges that limit the growth of an...

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From Diplomacy of Resistance to Diplomacy of Action Summary of Ukraine’s Foreign Policy 2025 and Discussion of its Future

The forum “From Diplomacy of Resistance to Diplomacy of Action” was held in Kyiv, organized by the Foreign Policy Council “Ukrainian Prism” in partnership with the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Ukraine and the International Renaissance...

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Reconstructing Trust: Social Cohesion and Recovery in Wartorn Irpin, Ukraine

The Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Ukraine has published a new analytical report examining how reconstruction is reshaping social cohesion in the war-affected city of Irpin.

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Training course "The Path to Prosperity of Ukraine: Experience of Germany" has been launched

On October 16, 2025, the first seminar was held as part of the training course "The Path to Prosperity of Ukraine: Experience of Germany" devoted to the topic "Financial System for Industrial Development". The event took place on the...

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Ukraine's Industrial Unions: No Voice in Reconstruction

Despite the war and the decline of industry, trade unions in Ukraine continue to defend the interests of their members. The state of the trade union movement was investigated on the basis of interviews with its participants in the paper...

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Maximizing the benefits of Critical Raw Materials for Ukraine

Ukraine’s critical raw materials have become an object of global discussion since the negotiation and signing of an agreement with the United States that gives that country priority access to their development.

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What Bosnia’s Recovery Can Teach Ukraine

Almost 30 years ago, the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina ended with the Dayton Peace Agreement. Since then, the country has achieved macroeconomic stabilization and managed to rebuild its infrastructure. However, population losses caused...

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Germany’s Economic Model: Lessons for Ukraine

Germany's economic success story after World War II is well-known, but there is less awareness of its underlying factors. Zeynep Nettekoven, Hansjörg Herr and Petra Dünhaupt shed light on these in our new study “Towards Prosperous...

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Publications

Too little, too slow

Kardava, Ekaterine ; Yarmolyuk-Kröck, Kateryna ; Palihovici, Liliana | Kyiv : Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Regional Office Dialogue Eastern Europe, [2019]

why employees in Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine do not benefit from the EU association agreements

Implementation of the EU-Ukraine association agreement

Yarmolyuk-Kröck, Kateryna ; Skoryk, Marfa ; Andreyev, Vasyl | Kyiv : Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Kyiv Office, October 2019

labour law, gender equality and occupational safety and health

OSCE and Donbas

Goda, Samuel | Vienna : FES Regional Office for Cooperation and Peace in Europe, July 2019

missing piece

"Tired of being divided"

Krumm, Reinhard ; Weiß, Simon ; Semeniy, Oleksiy | Vienna : FES Regional Office for Cooperation and Peace in Europe, July 2019

scenarios foresight Ukraine

Bucharest nine

Gerasymchuk, Sergiy | Kyiv : Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Kyiv Office, July 2019

looking for cooperation on NATO's Eastern flank?

Healthcare reform in Ukraine

Jakovenko, Igor' | Kyiv : Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Representation in Ukraine, November 2018

initial results pending

The impact of the EU-Ukraine Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area on the Ukrainian industrial sector

Baženova, Olena ; Bochi, Angela ; Povoroznyk, Vasyl' | Kyiv : Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Kyiv Office, November 2018

The attitude of Ukrainians toward social democracy

Baljuk, Svitlana (Hrsg.) ; Klauning, Natalia (Hrsg.) ; Koval, Maria (Hrsg.) ; Röthig, Marcel (Hrsg.) ; Chetvertukhina, Lyudmyla (Hrsg.) | Kyiv : Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Kyiv Office, October 2018

public opinion poll results