Mary Dejevsky: Does the EU’s involvement in Ukraine amount to a form of colonialism?
Just a few months have passed, but it seems an age ago now that Ukrainian protesters were encamped in the streets of Kyiv, waving enormous European Union flags, and demanding the EU Association Agreement that their then flailing president had refused to sign. When individual protesters were asked by reporters why they were so desperate to join Europe that they remained on the square in sub-zero temperatures and snow, their replies were almost endearing in their naivety.