Ukraine

Has Hungarian obstructionism triggered greater EU fiscal integration?

Viktor Orban, by delaying EU aid to Ukraine, may have inadvertently helped make the case for more EU fiscal federalism

Future European Union gas imports: balancing different objectives

Criteria including derisking, climate considerations, methane intensities and transportation security should inform decisions on the EU’s gas imports

How to harvest the windfall profits from Russian assets in Europe

The challenge still remains of crafting a syndicated loan for Ukraine backed by G7 members that strikes a fair deal on burden sharing

Use the financial system to enforce export controls on Russia

Prohibition of Western tech exports to Russia is not working; rapid measures are needed to tighten up

The impact on the European Union of Ukraine’s potential future accession

This report evaluates the impact on the EU of a possible EU accession of Ukraine, focusing on economic consequences and institutional developments.

Stay away from Russian money

The EU would shoot itself in the foot by confiscating Russian assets and giving them to Ukraine

Emerging countries have replaced most of Russia’s lost trade with advanced economies

Russian trade overall seems to have suffered little from sanctions; meanwhile, medicine and food trade continues with sanctioning countries

How war in Ukraine brought Europe together

EU countries have resisted splintering factions since Russia’s 2022 invasion

Ukraine's accession is affordable — but corruption is the worry

Ukraine’s path to European Union membership and its long-term implications

The war complicates the accession process, but Ukraine can work progressively towards meeting the entry conditions

The European Union-Russia energy divorce: state of play

EU-Russia energy trade has fallen hugely since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but the EU could still do more to reduce dependence

What to do with frozen Russian assets

How could the EU help further fund Ukraine two years into the war?

Two years later

To become a geopolitical player the European Union needs Treaty change

The EU will never become a serious geopolitical player without reducing national veto power.

The European Union should do better than confiscate Russia’s reserve money

The EU can use interest income made on immobilised Russian reserve assets to support Ukraine, but confiscating the assets now would be a mistake