On January 22, Vice Prime Minister, Minister of Regional Development, Construction, Housing and Utilities Hennadii Zubko and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Federal Republic of Germany to Ukraine Christof Weil will jointly visit the campus for the internally displaced persons in Kharkiv. They agreed on this during a meeting on Thursday, January 15 in Kyiv.

The parties also considered a number of issues on further cooperation between Ukraine and Germany, as well as the progress of the decentralization process in Ukraine.

Commenting on the recent visit of the Prime Minister of Ukraine to the Federal Republic of Germany, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary noted that the will of the Ukrainian government and Ukrainian people to the reforms had created a great impression on the German Side. He also stressed the importance of the fact that Ukraine had embarked on finance decentralization.

Hennadii Zubko said that following the approval of the amendments to the Budget and Tax codes regarding financial decentralization and forming on their basis of the state budget for 2015, it is important today to carry out relevant information policy in all the locations in order to convey to each community the new opportunities for their development.

Apart from that, the interlocutors touched upon changes to the Constitution of Ukraine, a judicial reform and activity of the Ukrainian-German High-Level Working Group on Economic Issues, the chairman of the Ukrainian part of which has been recently approved Vice Prime Minister Hennadii Zubko.