Ukraine-EU summit results: it is necessary to accelerate anti-corruption reforms in Ukraine

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In the joint statement on the results following the 20th EU-Ukraine Summit, the parties agreed on the importance of the continuation and acceleration of reforms in the fight against corruption.

This is said in a joint statement of the Donald Tusk, President of the European Council, Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission, and Petro Poroshenko, President of Ukraine, following the 20th EU-Ukraine Summit, posted on the website of the Head of the Ukrainian State.

«We agreed on the importance of continuing and accelerating reform efforts, in particular in the fight against corruption, which is a concern for Ukraine’s citizens and businesses. The adoption of the law on the High Anti-Corruption Court as an important step forward in the fight against corruption. We agreed on the need to further strengthen the necessary independence and full effectiveness of all anti-corruption institutions, which must carry out their work free from undue influence. We also agreed on the need to urgently both establish an effective verification mechanism of asset e-declarations and to revoke the electronic asset declaration obligation from civic activists,» – the statement notes.

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