Kyiv should formulate its policy based on the presumption that the European Union does not want to see Ukraine as a candidate for membership right now, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kostiantyn Hryschenko said.
"The EU was an answer to all questions as long as it financed, supervised, and directed transformations in candidate countries. Today it apparently does not have the desire and objectively does not have the resources to see Ukraine as a candidate country. This may change in the future, but now we should accept this as a fact that will directly influence Ukraine’s European policy within the next decade, and so we should formulate our policy accordingly," Hryschenko said in an interview published in the ‘Mirror of the Week. Ukraine’ Web publication.
Europe no longer wants to finance reforms in EU candidate countries, but this will not prompt Ukraine to abandon its desire to integrate into the EU, Hryschenko said.
"The EU is important for us not so much as a comfortable house we would like to move in as a manual on how to build our own comfortable house. European integration in our case is a plan for implementing European success recipes on Ukrainian soil," he said.
