Sevki ACUNER: “Business climate should be predictable”

Ukraine’s investment potential is far larger that we can see. And Ukraine can and must improve its business attractiveness. This is what the newly-appointed European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) director for Ukraine, Sevki Acuner, exclusively told The Day in his first interview with the Ukrainian media. “The main emphasis should be put on the improvement of business climate for both national and foreign investors. One must create equal and fair conditions of business activity for all market players and solve the problem of corruption. And, by all means, business climate should be predictable, for it is the first thing investors look at. Predictability is a certain guarantee for the growth of investments,” he says. Mr. Acuner also told our publication about whether foreign investors have changed their perception of Ukraine’s investment image, when funds will be made available for the pilot project of the Ukrainian gas pipelines modernization, and why the agro-industrial complex should be the No.1 priority for the government. Read about this and other things in the exclusive interview of the EBRD director for Ukraine in one of the next issues of The Day.