Game not over: on Ukraine’s rebuff to the EU deal

... despite Ms Tymoshenko still rotting in jail and probably facing a life sentence at the end of her ongoing trial for murder. 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 is little chance the agreement would have been stable if Ukraine’s President uses it, much like the lack of it, to achieve daily political goals, to get reelected and to get richer. The ...