Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak said that judicial reform remains one of the necessary ones for joining the EU.
“Judicial reform, a mechanism for selecting judges and holding them accountable,” he said, speaking at a Forbes-Ukraine conference on Friday.
Among the necessary reforms, he also named the reform of the SBU. “We must also continue to implement a plan to de-oligarchize Ukraine in order to eliminate the influence of the oligarchs on political decision-making,” he said. At the same time, he stressed the need for a significant strengthening of the antimonopoly legislation.
Yermak also announced the reform of key ministries and departments. “The state should become more compact and efficient,” he said.
The main principles for the authorities, according to him, remain “security standards, the rule of law, the value of human life.”
“Joining the EU will help us build a Ukraine that we can be proud of,” Yermak said, noting that “this (joining the EU-IF-U) should take place “as soon as possible.”
He also considers it necessary to develop practices for creating industrial parks and special regimes for IT companies.
Yermak urged businessmen to “be more active in making proposals and cooperating with the government and the President’s Office.” “The government, together with experts, should create a national plan for joining the EU. The plan should be as realistic as possible,” the head of the President’s Office said.
