EurActiv: Ukraine, not Iceland?
In Iceland the former prime minister is facing trial, not for corruption, but for negligence in connection with the handling of the country's financial crisis in 2008. Geir Haarde risks being put behind bars for two years. Ironically, Iceland, like Ukraine, has set the goal to join the European Union. I wonder whether Brussels protects Haarde as well as Ukraine's Yulia Tymoshenko, since the former was the leader of the opposition - the Independence party - and the charges against him are politically motivated?
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