Towards a peaceful future for Ukraine’s Donbas region

Abstract

The third High-Level Policy Dialogue (HLPD) on the Donbas region was organised by the School of Transnational Governance (STG) of the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, on 8-9 February 2020, in cooperation with a Ukraine-based team involved in supporting the Minsk negotiations. Building on discussions at the first two HLPD editions of December 2018 and July 2019 that had addressed the post-conflict economic perspectives for the Donbas region as a whole and the issue of the institutional framework for reintegration, this dialogue focused on designing a vision for Donbas reintegration and on the possible role of the international and business communities in achieving it. It brought together high-level Ukrainian decision-makers and policy influencers, leading economists, academics, actors from civil society as well as representatives from European and US international institutions and businesses. Under the Chatham House rule, they provided analysis and discussed policy recommendations that stand as expert advice for Ukrainian policy-makers and the international community.