The European Court of Auditors found in a report published on 23 September that EU support for reforms in Ukraine was ineffective in fighting major corruption.
While the EU has made the fight against corruption a cross-cutting priority, according to the auditors, the assistance and measures put in place have not yielded the expected results. They argue that although the EU has long been aware of the connections between oligarchs, senior officials, politicians, the judiciary and state-owned...