Game not over: on Ukraine’s rebuff to the EU deal
... smooth-talk regarding its conditions, particularly the abolishing of the ‘selective justice’ (a cherished term of Enlargement Commissioner Štefan Füle), that is to say, re-trying ex-PM Yulia Tymoshenko. So smooth, in fact that, ... ... It is only too clear: a stable, democratic, European Ukraine is the EU’s geopolitical interest – conflicting with Russia’s own. So far it’s perhaps logical to consider Mr Yanukovych’s rebuff the EU’s defeat. But there ...
05.12.2013