{"id":38349,"date":"2025-11-12T14:09:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T11:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/?p=38349"},"modified":"2025-11-13T19:11:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T16:11:34","slug":"industrial-integration-in-the-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/industrial-integration-in-the-eu\/","title":{"rendered":"Industrial integration in the EU accession context: lessons from Poland, opportunities for Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poland\u2019s industrial growth after the EU accession was built on a clear progression: first bringing investors in, then embedding them in regional ecosystems, and finally helping companies move into higher-value production. Ukraine and Poland are structurally complementary: the former has industrial scale and reconstruction demand, the latter offers EU market access and institutional experience.<\/p>\n<p>What Ukraine can take from Poland\u2019s experience:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Industrial policy worked because it was tied to accession and served the goal of joining European value chains.<\/li>\n<li>Investments were directed into sectors where Poland could grow more sophisticated over time.<\/li>\n<li>Regions played a decisive role: development agencies and local leadership shaped where growth actually happened.<\/li>\n<li>Public money followed priorities \u2014 EU funds were used where they produced the highest return, not spread thinly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What it means for Ukraine-Poland economic ties:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Together, Ukraine\u2019s scale and Poland\u2019s ecosystem can form cross-border clusters in machinery, metallurgy, agri-food and green tech.<\/li>\n<li>These clusters can serve reconstruction demand and function as real pre-accession pilots of Ukraine\u2019s integration into EU value chains.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>The presentation is produced by Centre for Economic Strategy and Stefan Batory Foundation with the support of the Askold and Dir Fund<\/i>\u00a0<i>as a part of the Strong Civil Society of Ukraine \u2013 a Driver towards Reforms and Democracy project, implemented by ISAR Ednannia, funded by Norway and Sweden.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poland\u2019s industrial growth after the EU accession was built on a clear progression: first bringing investors in, then embedding them in regional ecosystems, and finally helping companies move into higher-value production. Ukraine and Poland are structurally complementary: the former has industrial scale and reconstruction demand, the latter offers EU market access and institutional experience. What [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":38350,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[197,523],"tags":[610,660],"experts":[500,662],"news_type":[140],"class_list":["post-38349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research-list-en","category-eurointegration-en","tag-war-economy-en","tag-eu-partnerships","experts-yana-ohrimenko","experts-nataliia_kolesnichenko-en","news_type-researches"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38349"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38400,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38349\/revisions\/38400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38349"},{"taxonomy":"experts","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/experts?post=38349"},{"taxonomy":"news_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_type?post=38349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}