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Anders Åslund’s chapter on Ukraine’s reconstruction, EU accession, and completion of structural reforms, discusses what to do when Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine finally ends. Preferably these three tasks would be combined. Hopefully, Ukraine and the collective West will combine and cooperate in these three processes. The driving force for Western support has become the informal G-7. Ukraine’s reconstruction requires substantial financing. Ideally, Russia should be forced to pay war reparations for all the damage it has caused in Ukraine. Preferably, the $300 billion of currency reserves of the Central Bank of Russia that Western countries have frozen should be confiscated to Ukraine’s benefit, but the West and international financial institutions also need to make substantial contributions.
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Åslund, A. (2023). Reconstruction, EU Accession, and Reform of Ukraine. In: Aliber, R.Z., Gudmundsson, M., Zoega, G. (eds) Fault Lines After COVID-19. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26482-5_9
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