Senior members of the European Union's executive branch travelled to Ukraine on Thursday looking to boost relations with the war-torn country and pave the way for it to one day join the bloc, but concerns over corruption and democratic deficiencies remain.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen led a team of 15 policy commissioners who were to spend the day discussing Ukraine's financial, business and energy needs, and how to bring the former Soviet state's legislation into line with EU standards.The highly symbolic visit is the first EU political mission of its kind to a country at war.
It's not clear exactly how the reforms can move at an accelerated pace almost one year into the war and with an economy being drained by defence spending and which relies on injections of foreign financial assistance, much of it from the United States and Europe. "However, Russia's war of aggression has disrupted some of the reform processes and exacerbated corruption risks. Reconstruction and recovery efforts can be drastically undermined by wrongdoers pocketing funds, both during the war and after," the report said.
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