European Union Committee
The Ukraine Effect: The impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on the UK–EU relationship

1st Report of Session 2023-24 - published 31 January 2023 - HL Paper 48

Contents

Summary

Chapter 1: Introduction

Our inquiry

This report

Chapter 2: Cooperation on sanctions

Coordination of sanctions policy

The UK sanctions regime

Differences between the UK, EU and US sanctions regimes

Implementation and enforcement of sanctions

Box 1: The future UK-EU relationship report. Recommendations
on sanctions

Implementation

Enforcement

Use of sanctioned assets for the reconstruction of Ukraine

Off-ramp

The sale of Chelsea FC and the case of Roman Abramovich

The future of sanctions coordination

Box 2: Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls

Chapter 3: The UK-EU defence relationship

Box 3: The future UK-EU relationship report. Recommendations
on UK-EU defence cooperation

Scale of military support to Ukraine

Overall EU support

Box 4: European Peace Facility

A spectrum of support for Ukraine among EU Member States

Support provided by the United Kingdom

UK-EU coordination

The challenge of sustainability of support

The EU defence industrial ecosystem

Box 5: EU defence initiatives

Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO)

European Defence Fund

European Defence Agency

The UK and EU-NATO cooperation

Chapter 4: Reconstruction of Ukraine

Existing initiatives

Box 6: Ukraine Recovery Conference

Box 7: Multi-Agency Donor Coordination Platform for Ukraine

The UK’s contribution to reconstruction

Reconstruction and Ukraine’s EU candidate status

The challenge of corruption

Lessons from the Western Balkans

Security and reconstruction

Chapter 5: Long-term implications for the UK-EU foreign policy
and security relationship

A more “geopolitical” EU?

Box 8: The EU Strategic Compass for Security and Defence

European strategic autonomy

EU enlargement

The future UK-EU foreign policy and security relationship

Summary of conclusions and recommendations

Appendix 1: List of Members and declarations of interest

Appendix 2: List of witnesses

Appendix 3: Call for evidence

Appendix 4: Glossary

Evidence is published online at https://committees.parliament.uk/work/7878/implications-of-russias-invasion-of-ukraine-for-ukeu-relations/publications/ and available for inspection at the Parliamentary Archives (020 7219 3074).

Q in footnotes refers to a question in oral evidence.





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