The Day Weekly Digest: Waiting for drama’s finale
The history of relations between the European Union and Ukraine is packed with dramatic events, more often than not with happy endings. This time there are many indicators to the contrary. The European side has for weeks been reading its lines, with Ukraine’s Party of Regions reading their own. Ukrainian diplomats can only act as instructed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, with Foreign Minister Hryshchenko flying to Brussels on an umpteenth official visit without a new clear-cut position of the Ukrainian government. The political good-will visits by President Bronislaw Komorowski of Poland and ex-President Alexander Kwasniewski to Ukraine didn’t work, either. As I write this, I’m not sure that President Yanukovych’s visit to Brussels won’t be canceled. Time keeps running, with both sides reiterating their statements reminding one of a classical Greek tragedy, when the choir sings the refrain, spelling out the tragic finale – in this case what appears to be the inevitable fiasco of the talks on Ukraine’s associate membership, along with what will most likely mark a decline in Ukraine-EU relations. Will this problem be resolved the way such problems were during the previous crises? Time will show.
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