Stories
Rising from ashes: EU loan helps revive paper factory in Chernihiv, Ukra…
The story of Amethyst, a company that produces high-quality toilet paper and paper towels, begins in 1990, and in more than one way it’s a story of invention being born of necessity
On the forefront of emergency medicine
What Anton Atroshyn loves most about his job is a specific moment: coming home after a long shift, exhausted but carrying the feeling of having done his duty.
Protect and rebuild: Ukrainian veterans successfully adapt to peaceful life
When Ukrainian veteran Vadym Holoyuk was demobilised, he found the world around him and the labour market had changed beyond recognition
New skills – new opportunities for development: EU supports vocational e…
Olha Ostapenko, aged 36, lives in the village of Vepryk, in the Poltava region of central Ukraine. She is a single mother raising her three-year-old son alone, an internally displaced person (IDP),…
Supporting Ukrainian civil society during Russia’s continued aggression
Hennadii Vypynashko is a Ukrainian human rights defender who has coordinated the Protection Programme of the Educational Human Rights House Chernihiv
Year Two of the Deregulation Action Plan in Ukraine: e-Permits, Updated …
The Ukrainian government, along with international organisations supporting this important initiative, set an ambitious goal of easing conditions for entrepreneurs and introducing a new digitalised…
EU 4 Gender Equality partners with the private sector for family-friendl…
According to the World Bank, gender inequality continues to limit women’s full participation in the labour force across Europe and Central Asia
Unconditional love: how dogs are healing the hearts of children in Ukraine
A library in Odesa is full of children accompanied by their parents, though they are not there to trawl the shelves for books. Today is a special day for them, the books are left untouched, as they…
A Spring in Their Step: Zhytomyr sock manufacturer enters new markets wi…
Zhytomyr brand Lehka Khoda (the name in Ukrainian means “Easy Walking”) is one of Ukraine’s largest hosiery manufacturers
Comfortable Future: EU4Business helps Ukrainian street furniture maker f…
For the past six years, the Ukrainian village of Zymna Voda, strategically located next to the ring road leading to the Polish border town of Przemyśl
Venko: Ukrainian 3D wall panel designer taking strides in European marke…
Yuriy Namaka and Taras Yalovenko, entrepreneurs from the town of Radyvylove in the western Ukrainian region of Rivne Oblast, established a small business, Venko Workshop, producing various wooden i…
‘FSB operatives in Kherson hunted me during the occupation’
“Before the full-scale war, everything in my life was fine. Even now, I don’t consider everything in my life bad. The main thing is that I am alive and not where the occupiers are. But I never thou…