An economic development strategy for the Donbas with spill-over potential : incentives, investments, and insurance

Abstract

On 10 December 2020, the School of Transnational Governance (STG) of the European University Institute, Florence, convened the fourth edition of its High-Level Policy Dialogue (HLPD) on Donbas’ Future. The focus lay on the new Concept of Economic Development of the Donetsk and Luhansk Oblast2 presented by Oleksii Reznikov, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Reintegration of the Temporary Occupied Territories of Ukraine. Representatives from the United Nations (UN), the European Investment Bank (EIB), the World Bank, the European Union (EU), and the Atlantic Council, as well as high-level Ukrainian policy makers and business representatives critically reflected upon the Concept, that will form the basis for a comprehensive development Strategy for the region to be submitted to Cabinet and Parliament by the Summer of 2021, and discussed ways to achieve the newly set economic objectives