Ukraine Recovery Conference 2026

Ukraine's Recovery Conference in Gdańsk secured $20 billion in financing and partnership deals across energy, banking, insurance, and drone production. The EU and World Bank provided public funding, while PrivatBank, Oschadbank, and defense manufacturers led private-sector agreements.

Europe’s five largest military powers (France, Germany, the U.K., Italy, and Poland) are meeting in Berlin to prepare for a NATO summit and discuss support for Ukraine. The article also covers a contentious EU agreement on migrant return laws, which would transfer individuals ordered to leave the EU to detention centers outside the bloc, and a climate analysis of Europe’s ongoing heatwave.

Ukraine's Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko is leading the country's delegation to the Ukraine Recovery Conference 2026 in Gdańsk, where Kyiv aims to secure agreements on defense capabilities, energy, and economic cooperation. The conference, co-hosted by Poland and Ukraine, will focus on reconstruction and investment in sectors damaged by Russia's war.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko will lead Kyiv’s delegation to the Ukraine Recovery Conference in Gdańsk, replacing President Volodymyr Zelenskyy who skipped the event amid a diplomatic dispute with Polish President Karol Nawrocki. The conflict escalated after Nawrocki revoked Zelenskyy’s Order of the White Eagle following Ukraine’s naming of a military unit after the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, a group linked to wartime atrocities against Poles.

The leaders of Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, and Hungary are holding their first Visegrád Group summit in over two years, reviving the format after it was frozen since Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. The UK’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer resigned, with former Manchester mayor Andy Burnham likely to replace him, and the European Parliament will allow staff to work abroad up to 10 days annually starting July 1.