Prime Minister says Ukraine’s economy is stable and predicts growth next year

The Ukrainian economy became stable in 2016 and will begin to fully develop next year, Ukrainian Prime Minister, Volodymyr Groysman, has said. Groysman was addressing the 13th Annual Meeting of the Yalta European Strategy.

“We have had countless problems, resulting in a desperate and devastated country. The necessary solutions were approved promptly, however, and in 2016 I do believe that stablisation happened. 2017 will have to be the year of development,” Groysman said.

Groysman also said that Ukraine’s biggest enemies, apart for the military threat in the East, are corruption and populism.

“Apart from the Russian tanks, we have a few more serious and dangerous enemies: these are corruption and populism. And I would say that populism is as big an evil as the Russian tanks and corruption. What we see now: people being killed, corruption in the Government administration system, oligarchisation, are all things caused by the fact that no-one considered how we would live tomorrow. Short-term poltical interests have guided policies and have made our country poor,” Groysman said.