Civil society struggles to keep Ukraine’s government on European path
NGOs step in to help advise and influence state bodies on the ambitious reforms programme
Ukraine Today is joined by Zoriana Mishchuk, a member of the EU-Ukraine civil society platform about the challenges Kyiv faces in monitoring the implementation of the Association Agreement with the European Union.
“There are so many tasks on the list and obviously, the civil servants [in] Ukraine are not able to cope with all of them and here is the expertise, experience and knowledge of European policies which has been accumulated by civil society. It is of crucial importance.”
“We know that the culture of ignoring laws is very dispersed and typical for this country [Ukraine].”
“[Ukraine] is my country. I’m very interested to see it prosperous, efficient and democratic and this time, we [civil society] feel that it is up to us to move the reforms and it is very rewarding… I think that now we have a lot more courage than we did before the Revolution of Dignity. We feel much more empowered [with] having rights to have a say in this process and this courage really is giving energy to our action.”