(EU) Investments: - Ukraine: Olexy Plotnikov, analyst at the World Economic Institute of Kyiv, welcomed the recent recovery in investments in Ukraine "due to relative political and financial stability in Ukraine linked to the appointment of the new liberal Prime Minister Viktor Lukachenko". Indeed, foreign investments increased by 58.6% in the first half of 2000 compared to the same period last year, to reach $420 million. Since Ukraine's independence in 1991, the investment stock had shot...