European Solidarity Registers Third Version of the Anti-Corruption Strategy

On May 25, the European Solidarity faction registered its version of the Strategy in parliament. The two competing draft laws on the Anti-Corruption Strategy for 2026–2030 — from the Anti-Corruption Committee Chair and the Cabinet of Ministers — have now been joined by a third.

MPs now have three versions to choose from. All are based on the NACP text but differ on several points of principle.

The version authored by MPs Petro Poroshenko, Iryna Herashchenko, Artur Herasymov, Ivanna Klympush-Tsyntsadze, and Volodymyr Viatrovych is closer to Anastasiia Radina’s draft than to the government’s. It retains the detailed provision on setting NACP staff salaries in law, as well as the expanded powers of the SAPO Head — including the right to carry out any investigative actions in NABU cases without involving the Prosecutor General.

However, like the government’s version, the European Solidarity Strategy does not grant the SAPO Head the right to enter information on MPs into the Unified State Register of Pretrial Investigations. On SBI reform, European Solidarity goes further than anyone: it proposes not merely refining the Director’s selection procedure but a full “reboot” of the Bureau — with mandatory vetting of all personnel and the involvement of international partners.

The European Solidarity Strategy also includes an expanded preamble with five anti-corruption principles: irreversibility of reforms, openness by default, inevitability of accountability, integrity-driven recovery, and protection of the state from capture. These principles are largely declarative and do not affect the substance of the reforms. But through these preamble changes, European Solidarity declares its priorities for the next five years: the fight against top-level corruption and preventing political capture of anti-corruption, judicial, and law enforcement institutions.

The relevant committee has already begun work on the draft laws that will define the country’s anti-corruption policy for the next four years but has not yet determined which version to recommend that parliament adopt as the basis. TI Ukraine will continue to actively monitor the process.