Influential American conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation issued a report on U.S. - EU cooperation featuring a chapter on the Eastern partnership focusing mainly on Ukraine. "Urgently, the EU should re-engage Ukraine by committing itself to ratifying the EU-Ukrainian Association Agreement, which will pave the way for a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement," stated in her report Sally McNamara, Senior Policy Analyst in European Affairs at The Heritage Foundation. The paper by The Heritage Foundation, the famous publisher of the annual Index of Economic Freedom, provides an in-depth analysis of the current Ukrainian foreign policy. It notes that Ukrainian government did not want the country "to fall into the Russian sphere of influence". The author reckons that USD 8 billion discount for Russian gas in exchange for Ukraine's joining the Customs Union "may be attractive to [the President of Ukraine] Yanukovych in the short term, [but] accepting it would represent a long-term disaster for Ukraine - and for the West."
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