On 17 March 2016 European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker stated his Commission would propose visa liberalisation for Ukraine in the next month. The move comes after the Ukrainian Parliament passed a law earlier on 15 March 2016 to tackle corruption. The good news is much needed for the country that is still economically in a bad shape and suffers from a political crisis as well since the governing parties have lost their majority in Parliament and the Prime Minister narrowly survived a no-confidence voted earlier in February.

The earlier passed anti-corruption law would lead to more public oversight as senior and lower-level officials as well as their relatives would be obliged to file declarations of their income and holdings online, and could face criminal law if these would be false or wrong.

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