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The European Union will allocate the funds for the implementation of the U-LEAD with Europe program.
Ukrainian Minister for Regional Development, Construction, and Housing Hennadiy Zubko says the European Union will provide Ukraine with EUR 50 million for the further implementation of decentralization reform.
The issue was discussed at a meeting of the Ukrainian minister with Head of the Support Group for Ukraine Peter Wagner and Head of Cooperation at the EU Delegation to Ukraine Stefan Schleuning, the ministry's press service said in a statement on December 19.
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The European Union will allocate EUR 50 million for the implementation of the U-LEAD with Europe program, in particular, its second phase.
"We continue successful cooperation under the U-LEAD project. The cooperation roadmap will remain the same, since the Ukraine-EU Agreement on cooperation under this project complies with the European Charter of Local Self-Government. We, together with our international partners, will prepare an operational action plan for 2020 by late January 2019. Based on this plan, we'll propose the structure of the Central Reform Office. We have many new tasks to fulfill. In particular, the development of electoral legislation and cartographic works for modeling processes in regions," the press service quoted Zubko as saying.
According to the official, today the country, the central and local authorities, parliament, and local self-government units have a number of tasks, in particular, the formation of a new territorial base and the holding of elections in 2020 already on the basis of Ukraine's new administrative map.
"At the same time, local governments, the regional state administrations and even more than 10 ministries should move towards the formation of subregional level bodies and their own territorial structures. In 2020, the question of new electoral legislation on local elections will arise. We are going to propose changes to the legislation," Zubko added.
UNIAN memo. U-LEAD with Europe is a program for Ukraine on empowerment of local authorities, their accountability and development. The program is funded by the European Union.