“During the war, of course, corruption is always there because war is sometimes used as a source of illicit incomes, as you know,” Zelensky said in a virtual address to the Munich Security Conference.
“During the war, of course, corruption is always there because war is sometimes used as a source of illicit incomes, as you know,” Zelensky said Friday in a virtual address to the Munich Security Conference. “But, hopefully, this is going to end pretty much soon, and we'll cope with corruption after that.”
“Even when the war is going on, people saw that officials are conducting ‘business as usual,’” Anti-Corruption Action Center attorney Tetiana Shevchuk told Politico Europe earlier this month. “They saw that corrupt schemes have not disappeared, and it made people really angry. Therefore, the president had to show he is on the side of fighting against corruption.”
Even if Western powers remain confident in the integrity of the military aid process, the extant corruption anxiety threatens to delay Ukraine’s membership in the EU. French President Emmanuel Macron and other Western European leaders endorsed the conferral of EU “candidate” status on Ukraine, but they are not willing to scrap the various legal standards that the political bloc requires any aspirant state to meet.
The strategic significance of Ukraine’s prospects for joining the EU derives in part from the legal standards that members must uphold, which has contributed for years to the friction between Russia, neighboring former Soviet vassal states such as Ukraine, and the European bloc. “I think we're in a very complicated situation because we are, in parallel, fighting on battlefields with Russia and trying to implement with very high speed all these reforms,” Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov said. “And I hope that relations this year will be positive, and we will open this process.”
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