Even if the document did not factor in Ukraine’s latest achievements (the Index reflects progress between 2015 and 2016), it is still extremely alarming that Ukraine is not a leader of the Eastern Partnership. In one of the blocks for...
Ukrainian and Dutch NGOs called upon the Dutch Senate to vote for the ratification of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU, as stated in an appeal by the Reanimation Package of Reforms. The activists welcomed the approval...
A year ago when most of the participants in the consultative referendum in the Netherlands opposed the signing of the Association Agreement with Ukraine, I wrote that this decision was a problem not of Ukrainian but of European politics....
January 2006 and 2009 made headlines thanks to two gas wars between Russia and Ukraine. Now we know that they were part of Russia’s use of non-military instruments in new generation wars, which went basically unnoticed by the outside...
Even if the Dutch parliament decides to review the ratification procedure for the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement after the recent referendum, it would not affect the agreement’s timetable. A cartoon with the statement “If you...
Vadym Kastelli, Ukrainian filmmaker, producer and interpreter sent this letter to his Dutch friends on the eve of the referendum in the Netherlands. Kastelli’s friends suggested that the appeal becomes public, so here is the full...
Smart documents founder and CEO Marco Drost came to Ukraine in 2009. His company needed programmers – and it was “quite difficult at that moment, and still is” to find them in Holland. So the businessman checked the website...
Ton Huls, Chief Financial Officer at Mriya Agro Holding has been in Ukraine for 12 years. He speaks about Ukraine’s advantages and flaws. This is an abridged version of the interview given to Ukraine Today. Ukraine is dynamic, people...
Benno Grimberg is a Dutch businessman, coordinator of Food Tech Link Ukraine. This conglomerate of small and medium sized Dutch businesses is a public-private partnership. The four focus sectors are: fruits and vegetables, confectionery...
Now a Dutch referendum on Ukraine’s treaty with the EU is only weeks away. Some commentators say little is known about Ukraine in the Netherlands. Either that, or people are simply not interested. However, it’s this vote that...
In and around the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, there has arisen in the post-Soviet era a trio of creative musical figures of an exceedingly singular character. All three, as it happens, are women. And though Ukraine is hardly known as a...
