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No clean hands: Ukraine’s corruption scandal and Central Europe’s glass house
1 December 2025
Could limited labour mobility be costing both Ukrainian workers and EU businesses more than we think?
What are we all losing by keeping Ukraine out of the EU? From foreign direct investment to labour mobility, exclusion carries steep economic costs.
Join us on 16 June at 3:00 PM CEST / 9:00 AM EDT to interrogate the data and debate what Ukraine’s future could look like with – or without – EU membership.
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This event sets the stage for Visegrad Insight Future of Ukraine Fellow Ivan Us’s forthcoming article, where he explores the economic consequences of Ukraine’s exclusion.
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The discussion will last 60 minutes. This session will begin with on-the-record presentations by speakers, and the second part is an off-the-record Q&A.
Speakers:
Paweł Purski – public affairs and international policy expert, currently serving as Counsellor at the Council for Cooperation with Ukraine in the Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland. His work focuses on Ukraine’s reconstruction and building partnerships across government, international organisations, and business.
Ivan Us – Economic Diplomacy Program Expert, and since 2014 he has been Senior Consultant at the Foreign Policy Center of the National Institute for Strategic Studies under the President of Ukraine in Kyiv.
The discussion will be moderated by Galan Dall, Visegrad Insight Managing Editor.
