New Eastern Europe: The home stretch
On the day after the elections in 2006 in Ukraine, someone asked Yulia Tymoshenko if she had already started talks with Viktor Yushchenko on a coalition between their parties. She said that she was sleeping with the phone, waiting for the call. Today, President Viktor Yanukovych sleeps with his phone under his pillow – and it is time for José Barroso and Angela Merkel to make the call to remind him of the European Union offer. They shall send a reminder about Vilnius, the real support of the International Monetary Fund, as well as the abolition of visas for Ukrainian citizens to travel to the EU.