Importing EU norms: the case of anti-corruption reform in Ukraine

Králiková, Marta

doi:10.1080/07036337.2021.1872559

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“…The evolution, albeit slow, has been remarkable, from 144th in 2012 to 116th in 2022 (Figure 1). The country is aware of the high level of corruption, has created an anti‐corruption ecosystem (Bondarenko et al, 2020; Králiková, 2022), has initiated, but not completed, its judicial reform, and has multiplied the development of transparency tools. However, much remains to be done.…”

Section: Corruption Perceptions Index and Situation In Ukrainementioning

confidence: 99%

Corruption in Ukraine during the Ukrainian–Russian war: A decalogue of policies to combat it

Cifuentes‐Faura

2024

Journal of Public Affairs

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Russia's invasion of Ukraine has been a major humanitarian catastrophe. The war in Ukraine has also had serious global consequences. During the war, another of Ukraine's major problems, corruption, was also exposed. In response to these cases, the Ukrainian president has tried to crack down on fraud and corruption. Ukraine is a highly corrupt country, as indicated by the Corruption Perceptions Index. This article outlines Ukraine's corruption problem during the war, and the main forms of corruption, analyzes the country's performance in the Corruption Perceptions Index, and presents a 10‐point checklist of measures and policies to combat and end corruption in the short and long term.

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Section: Corruption Perceptions Index and Situation In Ukrainementioning

confidence: 99%

Corruption in Ukraine during the Ukrainian–Russian war: A decalogue of policies to combat it

Cifuentes‐Faura

2024

Journal of Public Affairs

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“…Nizhnikau (2018) highlights the importance of analysing domestic institutions and actors in the Eastern Partnership countries, and in particular the allocation of power, to understand resistance to EU-induced reforms. Similarly, Králiková (2022) shows with regard to Ukraine's anti-corruption reform that despite the successful legal change, the implementation suffers from attempts at delaying and manipulating the reform process as a result of its implications for certain domestic actors' entrenched interests and power positions.…”

Section: Implementation Of New Rulesmentioning

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Beyond Downloading: Venues for Associated Neighbouring Countries to Influence EU Law and Policies

Gstöhl¹,

Frommelt

2022

J of Common Market Studies

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The European Union (EU) has over time developed close relations, typically taking the form of acquis‐based association agreements, with the countries in its Western and Eastern neighbourhood. This article examines when, where and how these non‐Member States can influence the terms of their association with the EU's law and policies via institutional venues. It expands on the literature of external Europeanization and governance, which has mainly focused on the downloading of EU rules by these countries. Yet, the associated neighbours have the opportunity to exert influence at different stages of the law or policy‐making process: first, before the downloading of relevant new rules by uploading or cross‐loading, that is, by attempting to initiate or shape these rules during the agenda‐setting and the formulation phases; and second, during or after the downloading by tweaking or rebuffing relevant new rules in the adoption and implementation phases. These mechanisms of influence at different points in time and in different bodies are illustrated by examples from the countries of the European Free Trade Association, of the Eastern Partnership and in the EU's customs union. The findings indicate that more uploading opportunities can generally be expected, the more downloading is required, and the better the associated countries' access to EU bodies in the early stage of the formulation of new rules. Weak uploading opportunities make joint bodies more important for tweaking and rebuffing. The proposed conceptual framework contributes to the study of external differentiated integration and opens new research avenues.

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“…An added value of integrated approaches lies in avoiding the pre-determined competition between various theories and getting a multi-aspect picture of factors, influencing (non)-compliance in each specific case (Tallberg, 2002). It is noteworthy that integrated approaches are also characteristic for the literature on EU democracy promotion, rule transfer and its instruments (Buzogány, 2013;Samokhvalov and Strelkov, 2021;Králiková, 2021). The empirical analysis will be thus guided by the integrated approach to compliance, bringing together the enforcement and management compliance theories.…”

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Explaining Non‐compliance in the EU Differentiated Integration: The Case of Transport and Infrastructure Obligations under the EU‐Ukraine Association Agreement

Rabinovych

Egert

2022

J of Common Market Studies

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External differentiated integration constellations, such as the EU Association Agreements (AAs) with Eastern Neighbours, require third states to conduct extensive regulatory approximation with EU rules. Nevertheless, compliance in EU external differentiation remains under‐researched. In this vein, the article explains (non)‐compliance in EU external differentiated integration through the prism of an integrated approach to compliance that brings together the enforcement and management perspectives. The research is based on the case study of Ukraine's fulfillment of its transport‐ and infrastructure‐related obligations under the EU‐Ukraine AA. It is found that Ukraine's low compliance rates stem from an array of factors attributable to both of the applied perspectives. The study testifies to the complementarity of the enforcement and management approaches in the research of compliance in EU external differentiated integration and points out the need for the Commission to combine ‘carrots‐and‐sticks’ approach with consultations and capacity‐building to strengthen Eastern Neighbours' compliance with AAs norms.

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Importing EU norms: the case of anti-corruption reform in Ukraine

Cited by 15 publications

References 30 publications

Corruption in Ukraine during the Ukrainian–Russian war: A decalogue of policies to combat it

Corruption in Ukraine during the Ukrainian–Russian war: A decalogue of policies to combat it

Beyond Downloading: Venues for Associated Neighbouring Countries to Influence EU Law and Policies

Explaining Non‐compliance in the EU Differentiated Integration: The Case of Transport and Infrastructure Obligations under the EU‐Ukraine Association Agreement

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