The romance between Ukraine and the European Union is full of unmet expectations. Ukraine wants commitment from the EU; the EU wants proof that Ukraine has really changed. When EU officials visited Kiev on April 27th for a joint summit, they snubbed Ukraine’s requests for a peacekeeping force in the Donbas, for additional military aid and for visa-free travel. Western financial assistance is trickling in, but Ukraine wants more. "Greece already received $300 billion, with no war, with no Russian tanks," Arseniy Yatsenyuk, the prime minister, said after the summit. Ukraine, he complained, has received just one-tenth as much.
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From left, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk and European Comission President Jean-Claude Juncker on April 28 at Kyiv's Olympic Stadium.
