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Ukrainian President presented "Strategy of reforms 2020": Purpose of reforms is EU membership
29.09.2014 10:17 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
As of last week, the Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko presented «Strategy of reforms 2020», President Petro Poroshenko Press Office reports.
«The purpose of our ambitious reforms is to achieve European standards of life and prepare for the application for the EU membership in 2020,» the Head of State said.
As to the President, «our revolution has won with a delay of several centuries and we have only a few years to overcome this critical gap».
Petro Poroshenko emphasized that reforms must be systemic and touch upon all political, economic and social institutions. That’s why «Strategy 2020» provides for 60 reforms and special programs that must be launched almost simultaneously, he stressed.
Besides, the President named the 8 top-priority spheres reforms in which it is necessary to resolve the most urgent problems or create institutional preconditions for the implementation of other reforms. These priorities are anti-corruption and judicial reforms, reformation of law enforcement bodies, decentralization and state governance reform, tax reform, deregulation and development of entrepreneurship, reformation of security and defense system, health-care reform.
«I would add two special urgent programs - energy independence and further popularization of Ukraine in the world,» the Head of State noted.
Reportedly, Poroshenko called judicial reform the main one. «The essence of all reforms is to create good and fair rules instead of bad, unfair and unequal,» he said noting the role of courts in the given process.
It is to be admitted, «Strategy 2020» consists of three vectors: sustainable development of the country; security of the state, business and citizens; responsibility and social justice. The main precondition of this work must become a new social contract between the civil society, government and business where each side will have its own area of responsibility, the Head of State said.
The President particularly emphasized that «Strategy 2020» must unite all political forces around one common goal. «Political competition should move to the plane of finding optimal ways of implementation of reforms and achievement of a common goal. We shouldn’t discuss where to go anymore. The topic of discussion is how to go there,» Petro Poroshenko noted.
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