Party of Regions
Bloc Yuliya Tymoshenko
All-Ukrainian United Fatherland
Ukrainian Social Democratic Party
Bloc Our Ukraine
People's Union Our Ukraine
Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine
People's Movement of Ukraine
Christian Democratic Union
Ukrainian Republican Party Assembly
Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists
Socialist Party of Ukraine
Communist Party of Ukraine People's Opposition Bloc of Natalia Vitrenko
Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine
Party "Rus'-Ukrainian Union"
Political environment
Ukraine is a republic under a semi-presidential system with separate legislative, executive, and judicial branches. The President is elected by popular vote and is the head of state. The Prime Minister is appointed and dismissed by the 450-seat parliament. The parliament also approves the members of the Cabinet of Ministers. The heads of regional and district administrations are appointed by the agreement between the President and the Prime Minister.
Ukraine has a large number of political parties, many of which have tiny memberships and are unknown to the general public. Small parties often join in multi-party coalitions for the purpose of participating in parliamentary elections.
Members of the European People’s Party
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Ukraine/CDU and the Our Ukraine Coalition
Project: Campaign Training for Regional Campaign Leaders of the Our Ukraine Opposition Bloc (April, August, October, and November 2005)
EFF Trainers: Gijs Weenink, Jeroen de Graaf, Rien Fraanje, and Nico van Buuren
For many years now the EFF maintains strong ties with the Institute of Political Education. This training college had for years been the Christian Democratic CPU training college. The CPU has joined the "Our Ukraine" opposition bloc and the training college has expanded into an institute for the entire opposition bloc. In the run-up to the 2006 elections, the institute together with the EFF organised four training weekends for youth of the "Our Ukraine" opposition bloc. During the four training courses, the following topics resurfaced: contact with voters; how to identify potential voters for "Our Ukraine"; door-to-door campaigning; telephone campaigning; street campaign organisation, and election observation.
Project: 'Social Security for Youth' - two conferences (February and October 2005)
EFF Trainer: Jeroen de Graaf
After Victor Yushchenko's victory in the Presidential elections in the Ukraine and the announcement of Yulia Tymoshenko's "Steps toward the People" which is based on "Government for the People, not People for the Government", one of the government's main goals was confirmed: social security. The Orange Revolution's main driving force were youth who were also the first group to openly protest the old system in the Ukraine. Youth are the least socially secure group in the Ukraine. The social security system for Ukraine's youth has been developing slowly during Ukraine's transition to an independent state. The previous government had created a number of state-funded programmes (education, housing), but only a small group had access to said funding due to lack of information and bureaucracy. The situation is further complicated due to the fact that a large number of young people are moving abroad as their future in the Ukraine seems less than hopeful. This exodus has set in motion the government's overhaul of the general social security system and the social security system for youth in particular. The first step toward solving the global issue of social security is to provide information, set up discussions with the public and solicit media attention. To that purpose, the Institute of Political Education and the EFF have organised two conferences on financing youth organisations for leaders of youth organisations such as "Our Ukraine Coalition", mass media, government representatives, and the public
Reports
Documents and Reports of the World bank
English newspapers
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