Ukraine

At the invitation of Swedish MEP Karin Karlsbro, SCEEUS analyst Klara Lindström participated in breakfast discussion on Ukraine’s domestic politics and reforms in the European Parliament. Together with fellow speakers Inna Nelles (German-Ukrainian Bureau) and Maryna Yaroshevych (Foreign Policy Council Ukra...

Read the original press release in Swedish here .  The Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) has appointed Matteo Mecacci as Director of the European Policy Institute in Kyiv (EPIK). Established by UI through the Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies (SCEEUS) at UI, EPIK is the first Eur...

On Monday 27 April, SCEEUS, in cooperation with the Prague Civil Society Centre, co-hosted a panel discussion with representatives from leading Ukrainian independent media outlets ahead of World Press Freedom Day.  The panel, moderated by George Leech, Director of Outreach and Communications at the Prague...

On 31 March, a new chapter in European-Ukrainian collaboration began in Kyiv with the opening of the European Policy Institute (EPIK), launched by Sweden’s Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard, European Commissioner for Defence and Space Andrius Kubilius, and Ihor Zhovkva, Deputy Head of Ukraine’s Pres...

Earlier this week, SCEEUS organised a working lunch in Kyiv together with Ukrainian partners Centre of  Policy and Legal Reform and Ukrainian Centre for European Policy to discuss the country’s public administration reform (PAR). The recent co-written SCEEUS article  on PAR as the foundation of Ukraine’s...

By Klara Lindström, 29 January 2026   The air raids in Chernihiv are almost constant. Hordes of Russian drones, made with Chinese components, cheap plastic and Belarusian SIM cards, traverse this northern frontline region en route to Kyiv. While the world is busy with dramatic headlines, ordinary Ukrain...

On December 5, Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) held their annual Ukraine-Moldova Development Day conference. Photo: SCEEUS The conference gathered a series of panels discussing Ukraine and Moldova’s paths toward EU membership. Topics of discussion ranged from macroeconomics issue...

On 20–21 November, SCEEUS hosted a conference on the theme of total defence together with the Ukrainian think tank Sahaidachnyi Security Center , in cooperation with the Konrad-Adenauer Stiftung , International Renaissance Foundation and the Folke Bernadotteakademin . The conference brought together a del...

On Friday 26 September, SCEEUS hosted a seminar with Arseniy Yatsenyuk, founder and chairman of the Kyiv Security Forum and former Prime Minister of Ukraine (2014–2016). The discussion was moderated by Fredrik Löjdquist, Director of SCEEUS. During the seminar, Yatsenyuk emphasised that US support and a lo...

On Wednesday, 24 September, SCEEUS organised a roundtable discussion with Yaroslav Yurchyshyn, Member of the Ukrainian Parliament, as guest. The discussion was moderated by Stefan Ingvarsson, Analyst at SCEEUS. Yurchyshyn described Ukraine’s work within its temporary special commission for the development...