Some key politicians engaged in Ukraine’s integration process have recently made a decisive statement that without the release of Ukraine’s former prime minister, Yulia Tymoshenko (or at least allowing her to be treated in Germany), there will be no signing of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the Europe Union at the Eastern Partnership (EaP), scheduled to take place in late November this year in Vilnius. In parallel, Russia, has been issuing some warning statements against the EU’s “terrible” influences and its alternative to them – the Eurasian Union. Here, a question emerges: is there really a threat to Ukraine’s integration with the EU? Or, perhaps what we’ve been hearing with some intensity recently is a cry of despair of EU officials who are desperately searching for success before the Vilnius Summit?
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