On October 19-21, New Europe Center together with @ecfr co-organised a study visit for European experts & government officials from a number of key countries (🇫🇷, 🇩🇪, 🇮🇹, 🇸🇪, 🇳🇱, 🇺🇸, 🇱🇹, and 🇸🇰). 🔗Read more about the visit: https://t.co/lh5OAoDnh2

Time to act - message at today’s Association Forum in Kyiv. 🇺🇦 is advancing to EU faster than anyone imagined — drafting laws under blackouts, negotiating under sirens. Only one candidate is reforming during a full-scale war - 🇺🇦.

🎯“Ukraine Is Writing a Playbook on How to Reform During Wartime” 🇺🇦🇪🇺On October 21, 2025 New Europe organized the 4th EU Accession Exchange Forum in Kyiv. 🔗 https://t.co/f1PssZbN7q Stay tuned. Soon we will publish the most interesting messages of Forum. 📽️ https://t.co/neRJJSL1Rp

📌Georgians are having the hybrid war against Russia. It’s a totally different situation than in Ukraine. There should be no equality sign. #accessionforum2025

Unfortunately now what's happening in the country takes all our energy and all our resources.

📌Ukraine’s war is seen as a shared struggle, but Georgia has limited capacity to focus on it. Most of the citizens, if not all of them, consider that this is not just the war of Ukraine but this is the war of Georgians as well.

✍️@IvaneChkhikvadz, Head of EU Policy, Araminta, Georgia: 📌The people in Georgia now are caring about how to save the statehood. Because the stake is higher than just fighting against elite corruption. This is about how we will manage to survive as a state.

📌So, we have eroded the trust of our partners towards Ukraine. And the only thing that gives us possibility to still conduct a proper dialogue, is a trust in our society that has gone out to voice their concern. #accessionforum2025

And right now reshuffles are being made, changes are being done, people are being appointed, and that definitely does not lead to thorough, transparent, credible, rule-based investigations.

📌Thirdly, even in that very attempt to restore the independence of anti-corruption bodies, we somehow have forgotten part of the thing on restoring the competitions for the Prosecutor's General Office.

📌Secondly, the attacks on the anti-corruption infrastructure are being continued, and that is unfortunately a part of the state policy.

Yes, the situation has been reversed with the restoration of the anti-corruption, of the independence of the anti-corruption bodies, but it unfortunately did make damage. That’s first.

📌In order to efficiently materialize it in reality, I think the lessons must be learned from July events. At this point, I do not believe that we are done with that lesson and learned the exercise.

📌The basis of everything that is needed for successful accession is rule of law and anti-corruption: a set of values that is being honestly defended in the front lines, but not necessarily defended by the authorities in the policies.

✍️@IKlympush, Chair of the Committee on 🇺🇦’s Integration into the EU of @verkhovna_rada

📌Georgians are having the hybrid war against Russia. It’s a totally different situation than in Ukraine. There should be no equality sign. #accessionforum2025

Unfortunately now what's happening in the country takes all our energy and all our resources.

📌Ukraine’s war is seen as a shared struggle, but Georgia has limited capacity to focus on it. Most of the citizens, if not all of them, consider that this is not just the war of Ukraine but this is the war of Georgians as well.

📌The Italian media have higher standards for Ukraine than for its own leadership. For example, the protest this summer in Kyiv was discussed like the end of Zelensky, the end of the reform process, the autocratic decline of Zelensky's government. #accessionforum2025

📌Media fatigue reshaped perceptions of Ukraine in Italy and Western Europe. It was the narrative of fatigue that started in 2023 The long war, where an ending is not seen, a winner is not defined, and the impasse and the fatigue changed completely the approach.