US- and Lithuanian-Born Officials Will Be Independent, Competent—and New to Governing in Kyiv
The race is on. With Ukraine’s finances running thin and the country needing a bigger bailout from its western allies, the country’s new cabinet took office this week pledging to floor the accelerator on the spending cuts and reforms needed to begin stabilizing and building an economy that has shrunk this year amid the war with Russia. A day after the parliament approved the cabinet—including an American, a Lithuanian and a Georgian—the new Ukrainian-American finance minister, Natalie Jaresko, said she aims to slash the state budget in …read more
Source: Atlantic Council