When Ukraine is serious about integrating with the EU, the EU should welcome it de facto and de jure. Association should be offered with clear conditions but without deadlines or ‘now or never’ propositions.
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For Ukraine, the forthcoming November 2013 Eastern Partnership summit in Vilnius will be a watershed. It is then that the European Union will decide whether Ukraine has satisfied the conditions for signature of an EU–Ukraine Association Agreement and the establishment of a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (DCFTA).
When Ukraine is serious about integrating with the EU, the EU should welcome it de facto and de jure. Association should be offered with clear conditions but without deadlines or ‘now or never’ propositions.
Read more here.