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While the geopolitical tensions between Russia and Ukraine dominate the international news, the impact on the Ukrainian economy has been relatively moderate so far.

On December 3rd, Bernhard Duch gave a presentation during the online workshop “On Economic and Digital Diplomacy”, which was organised by the Uzbek government in cooperation with UNDP. Since 2017, the Uzbek economy has been successively opened to international markets, resulting in a strong interest among government officials to gain international experience in the field of economic diplomacy.

On 26 November, the German Economic Team (GET) and the Committee on Eastern European Economic Relations (OA) jointly organised an online event on the Ukrainian IT sector.

On November, 4, 2021, the German-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (AHK Ukraine), the Kyiv Chamber of Commerce (KCC) and the German Economic Team (GET) jointly organised a public event on the digital transformation of the Ukrainian economy.

On 3 November 2021, the German Economic Team (GET) and the Centre for Economic Strategy (CES) in Kyiv jointly hosted a hybrid expert panel on “How to limit the abuse of the simplified tax system in Ukraine?”

The topics of our newsletter: Digitisation in Ukraine, the future of Georgian electricity supply and the Uzbek reform balance sheet

Kosovo has joined the German Economic Team as the latest project country. On 28 September, the team had the opportunity to meet high-ranking representatives of the Kosovar government during a visit to the project implementer Berlin Economics.

During a trip to Chişinău last week, the German Economic Team had the opportunity to meet high-ranking representatives of the Moldovan government.