Ukraine Recovery Conference in Rome

Rome [ENA] Today in Rome is taking place the Ukraine Recovery Conference (URC), scheduled on July 10-11, 2025, the annual high-level political platform dedicated to the recovery and long-term reconstruction of Ukraine following the war started in 2022. Co-hosted by Ukraine and Italy, the conference is including national governments, international organizations, business leaders, financial institutions, civil society

representatives, regional and local authorities. The Conference is adopting a whole-of-society approach to recovery, involving all stakeholders in society: institutions, businesses, citizens, and civil society organizations. The primary objective of the event is to raise public awareness and mobilize international support and investment for Ukraine's recovery, reconstruction, reforms, and modernization. It highlights Ukraine's reform progress in the context of its economic resilience and the EU accession process. The URC 2025 is building on the work initiated in previous events in Lugano (2022), London (2023), and Berlin (2024), confirming the Four Berlin Dimensions as key pillars for Ukraine's recovery, modernization, and reforms:

the Entrepreneurial Dimension, the Human Dimension, the Local and Regional Dimension, and the EU Dimension. These same Dimensions have already shaped the work of the URC 2024 and remain the most relevant themes for Ukraine's resilience and reconstruction. The principles outlined in the Lugano Declaration of 2022 emphasize a recovery process that is led by Ukraine in close partnership with international actors and grounded in democratic values. Core elements include respect for gender equality, cultural rights and environmental sustainability, alongside legal transparency and a commitment to deepening Ukraine’s reform trajectory in alignment with its path toward EU accession.

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni spoke at the Bilateral Conference on the Reconstruction of Ukraine at the Palazzo dei Congressi in Rome and, previously, made statements to the press with Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal at the end of the bilateral meeting. The URC builds upon the legacy of the Ukraine Reform Conference, which began in 2017 in London as an annual event supporting Ukraine’s reform agenda. These earlier conferences focused on advancing transparency, stability, and democratic governance in accordance with the Ukrainian Government Medium-Term Priority Action Plan until 2020. Since 2022, the URC has adapted to the evolving context of war. The inaugural URC in Lugano laid the political and conceptual foundations

for Ukraine’s reconstruction, including the launch of the Ukrainian government’s National Recovery Plan. The 2023 conference in London marked a transition from strategic planning to implementation, emphasizing the role of the private sector through the launch of the “Ukraine Business Compact”, which secured commitments from over 500 companies worldwide. The 2024 URC in Berlin, which inaugurated the four-dimensional structure (business, human, EU and local/regional dimensions), strengthened private sector engagement through initiatives such as the Skills Alliance and the SME Resilience Alliance.

It also launched multilateral partnerships focused on enhancing energy security, gender inclusivity, and the green transition. Notably, the Berlin conference incorporated the EU accession perspective as a separate dimension to the URC, complementary to all the aspects of the recovery effort. The 2025 edition of the URC in Rome continues to facilitate robust private sector participation, introduce new financial and policy instruments to support business engagement, and address persistent gaps in reconstruction. The conference reinforces the interdependence of reform and recovery, ensuring that each step forward contributes meaningfully to Ukraine’s European integration process.