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Berlin Process Summit: Where do WB6 countries stand after 10 years?

The Berlin Process, launched in 2014, is an intergovernmental cooperation initiative to strengthen ties between a group of EU Member States, inter alia Germany, France and Poland, and EU membership candidate and potential candidate countries in Southeastern Europe. It also aims to foster cooperation in areas like economic development and infrastructure.

We are pleased to announce that the final version of study on the Green reconstruction of Bucha has been published.

For the upcoming  “Moldova Support Platform” ministerial conference on 17th October in Chişinău with the foreign ministers of Germany, France and Romania, Berlin Economics, via the “German Economic Team”project, identified on request by the Moldovan government reform options and measures having the potential to make the Moldovan economy more resilient and growth-oriented in the medium term.

 

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has had dramatic humanitarian and economic consequences. While the focus now must be kept on the survival of the war, proposals for reconstruction also need to be developed.

15th June 2023, 11-12.30 pm CET

The reconstruction of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure requires the use of new financing instruments, in particular at the local level. There are various proposals as to what these could look like.

On September 2nd, the second part of the 21st information event on government consultation, organised by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK), took place. After Ukraine, Moldova, Armenia and Georgia had been in the focus on Tuesday, Belarus, Uzbekistan and Kosovo were this time on the agenda.

On 13 July 2022, VoxUkraine published an article from David Saha, Pavel Bilek, Rouven Stubbe and Manuel von Mettenheim, Anna Ackermann, Anna Danyliak and Viktoriia-Anna Oliinyk on “Putting the green reconstruction of Ukraine into action: Requirements for programme design and policy”.

Ukraine has set itself ambitious climate targets – the country aims to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 65% by 2030 compared to 1990. By 2060, all sectors are to be completely climate neutral. Achieving this goal will require significant changes that will encompass the entire economy.

Kosovo has joined the German Economic Team as the latest project country. On 28 September, the team had the opportunity to meet high-ranking representatives of the Kosovar government during a visit to the project implementer Berlin Economics.