World Affairs Journal: Integrating an authoritarian Ukraine into democratic Europe?

They should make it conditional on Ukraine adopting European standards and European models of governance Ukraine will never be a free independent state as long as it remains a Presidential Autocracy. Ukraine needs to adopt a full parliamentary model and the Euro as its economic unit as did Latvia and Estonia. Europe needs to draft a model; constitution that prospective and existing states should use to bring their constitution in line. Any state that does not conform to the constitutional standards should be prohibited from joining the EU. Existing states should be given 20 years to reform their constitutions also brining them in line with a common goal and common standard.

Ukraine would be well served if it adopted a west minister system of government where government is determined by a majority of the legislators. Ukraine should also adopt a system of the common law as the basis for its judicial system.

Suggested and otherwise, the imperialism behind the use of some words is evident.

You don't have to be "European" to be in the EU.

Ukraine have no other appeal to the west but a sex tourism state. The orange DERMOcraps did that, being US paid quislings.

During the orange mafia rule their xoxol diaspora cronies profited in sex slave trafficking and pimping of cheap Ukraine girls, while the children prostitution and alcoholism skyrocketed in the orange Ukraine.

The EU being US marionettes did not talk much about the orange mafia state blatant disregard of the basic human rights of the Ukraine children.

Now the the US lead the World into economy crash and the EU is suffering the consequences of their US masters being BROKE, they look for other markets to dump their crap, but the ASIA economy superpower competition drives the EU into the poor house much what is going with their US masters.

The EU is up to its neck into the financial problems that plague the Eurozone. They barely can cope with the Greece impact and far worse is comming - the Spain economy tatters and Spain is far large economy compared to Greece. Italy credid ratings got down the drain. Not to mention Ireland and Portugal.

In view of the developing financial crisis The EU will think twice before accepting yet another parasite underdeveloped economy like the Ukraine one.

There are far better candidates like Israel and Turkey who wait for EU membership for decades, so Ukraine shall forget about any kind of EU association in the nearest 100 years. LOL :D

very clear insight

The truth hurts, hence the incohesive orange whine.

I only state the facts about the the impact of the orange marauders upon the Ukraine. It had nothing to do with any kind of TRUE democracy but with US-paid DERMOcrapy, heh, heh, heh :D

Orange Ukraine == US banana republic.

The current state of the EU is well publicized. Spain is next, then Italy with their $1.3 TRILLION debt.

The US debt is worse than all the thurdworlders combined. Beggars, pure and simple.

Um.. its pretty well known that the human trafficking racket is run out of moscow and tel-a-viv,.. and that its most active in Eastern Ukraine,.. along with the AIDS epidemic and just about any other degrading sub-human artifact of the soviet plague... like you.

Not like the "virtuous" pro-Bandera kooks in Galicia and Volhynia.

You really are a complete idiot, aren't you? You spout off about geo-political situations as if you know what you're talking about, but the reality is that that you know nothing. Your only agenda is to discredit any democratic movements in Ukraine-a country you want to see colonized by Moscow again. Climb back under your rock.

Sure beats your pebble brained idiocy.

LOL "There are far better candidates like Israel and Turkey who wait for EU membership for decades". You say this and you really expect people to believe you? Please do not be shocked by this information:

First of all perhaps you should know Israel is not on the European continent. Neither of course is the vast majority of Turkey, but you should know that as Turkey becomes more authoritarian, it becomes even less likely to be a candidate for the EU. Turkey has more journalists in prison than any other country at the moment. At that rate it will never become a member. Countries like Turkey make Ukraine look promising.

Ukraine will enter the EU without Yanukovych. He is finished.

Funny you say that. It's the EU that looks finished. There is no way the E.U. could accept Ukraine as a member now. The EU has problems up the ass now. Look at Greece.

Idiotlogues have off the wall beliefs.