Anders Aslund: What trade policy does Ukraine need now?
Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman (R) and Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau shake hands after a joint press conference following their meeting in Kyiv on June 11.
At the informal ministerial meeting of the Eastern Partnership in Kyiv on July 11-12, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin proposed that the six members of the Eastern Partnership (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine) form a single economic space or free trade area. This is implausible. Ukraine does need to open its economy to foreign trade to develop economically and combat corruption, but the question is how.
