Ukraine

EU candidate countries acquis alignment dataset (2020-2025)

EU candidate preparedness is quantified from annual Commission reports, creating comparable scores across eight countries, policy areas and years

Marek Dabrowski and Maria Catarina Louro

Progress made by EU candidate countries on accession-related reforms

EU accession progress broadly tracks reform, but Montenegro’s advance and North Macedonia’s stalled talks show politics still matters

Marek Dabrowski and Maria Catarina Louro

Symbolic membership for Ukraine could bring practical security benefits to the EU

An idea for associate EU membership for Ukraine now, in parallel with negotiations on full membership that will take years, should be taken seriously

Heather Grabbe

Europe's energy aid to Ukraine must change

Rouven Stubbe and Georg Zachmann

What lessons can Ukraine learn from the Gulf?

Jacob Funk Kirkegaard

Europe Pays Up for Ukraine

Rebecca Christie

The European Union and the war in Ukraine: more money, but not more Europe

This Working Paper analyses the drivers of rearmament and especially military aid to Ukraine

Jacob Funk Kirkegaard

Ukraine, Europe and the new economics of war

By maintaining stability and innovating to hold out against Russia, Kyiv has shown that size matters less in conflict than it used to

Elina Ribakova

Ukraine talks: peace progress or dead end?

How should the EU manage negotiations with Ukraine, the US and Russia?

Rebecca Christie, Nicolas Véron and Guntram B. Wolff

How can Europe take greater advantage of Russia’s immobilised reserve assets?

Nicolas Véron

An EU reparations loan is the right way to help Ukraine

European Union countries should agree to back a clever workaround that would leave Russia’s assets untouched but leverage them to support Ukraine

Charles Lichfield and Nicolas Véron

Rebuilding Ukraine: international support, defence and recovery

As Russia’s war on Ukraine continues, how are EU and international partners helping to finance recovery and support reconstruction in a conflict zone?

Rebecca Christie, Tyson Barker, Simon O’Connor and Elina Ribakova

The EU, China and Russia in a changing geopolitical landscape

Alicia García-Herrero

How the war in Ukraine is reshaping EU-China relations

How the war is influencing Europe’s strategic and economic ties with China and Russia

Alicia García-Herrero, Ivana Karásková, Elina Ribakova and Yuyun Zhan

Ukraine: European democracy’s affordable arsenal

A future enlarged EU, including Ukraine, should take full advantage of the lower-cost military production capabilities of Ukraine

Jacob Funk Kirkegaard