{"id":569113,"date":"2025-11-14T04:56:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T04:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/569113\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T04:56:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T04:56:10","slug":"eu-allies-demand-answers-from-ukraine-over-escalating-corruption-scandal-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/569113\/","title":{"rendered":"EU allies demand answers from Ukraine over escalating corruption scandal \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere will be a cleansing and reset of Energoatom&#8217;s management,\u201d Zelenskyy said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>In total, the Commission has granted \u201cmore than \u20ac3 billion\u201d in energy-related aid to Kyiv since 2022, a spokesperson for the EU executive said.<\/p>\n<p>Around one tenth of that has been channeled through the Energy Community, an international organization that supplies Ukraine with in-kind energy equipment like transformers based on requests from Kyiv. In total, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy-community.org\/Ukraine\/Fund\/overview.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">it has mobilized \u20ac1.5 billion<\/a> in donations from Ukraine\u2019s western partners.<\/p>\n<p>Energy Community Director Artur Lorkowski called the scandal \u201cfrustrating.\u201d But at the Vienna-based organization, the corruption \u201crisk is mitigated,\u201d he said, since it retains \u201cfull control\u201d over the coordination, purchase and post-arrival monitoring of the equipment \u2014 with procurement handled by an independent agency in the U.K.<\/p>\n<p>The EBRD, meanwhile, has allocated \u20ac3.1 billion in aid to Ukraine\u2019s energy sector, a bank spokesperson said, around a third of its total support since 2022. Its \u201cvery robust procurement requirements,\u201d including open tenders and direct payments to contractors, they said, gives the bank a \u201cvery high degree of comfort\u201d for future donations.<\/p>\n<p>Still, others argue there is still a long way to go in eliminating corruption in the sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThere will be a cleansing and reset of Energoatom&#8217;s management,\u201d Zelenskyy said Wednesday. In total, the Commission has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5174],"tags":[180719,331,1194,3854,17365,2575,35,25799,1112,2000,299,5187,37846,1945,1824,3976,2190,475,806,1197,5111,3209,7061,2343,332,2663,2824,11587,657,15,1781,2601],"class_list":["post-569113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eu","tag-artur-lorkowski","tag-banks","tag-budget","tag-coal","tag-corporate-governance","tag-corruption","tag-energy","tag-energy-infrastructure","tag-estonia","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-feed","tag-friedrich-merz","tag-germany","tag-governance","tag-hungary","tag-imports","tag-industry","tag-investment","tag-parliament","tag-payments","tag-procurement","tag-research","tag-russia","tag-sanctions","tag-tanks","tag-transparency","tag-ukraine","tag-united-kingdom","tag-viktor-orban","tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115546278121918906","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}