2020-09-30
President Zelenskyy heads to Brussels next week for the twenty-second annual EU-Ukraine Summit with bilateral ties at their most strained since the signing of a landmark Association Agreement in 2014. The relationship between Ukraine and the European Union has become significantly stronger during the past six years, but backsliding by the Zelenskyy government in Kyiv on key anti-corruption measures is now sparking concern among Ukraine’s European partners over the country’s future direction.