Ukraine-European Union Relations
OP-ED
George Soros: Ukraine & Europe. What should be done?
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier (L-R), Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin and French Foreign minister Laurent Fabius chat as they wait for Russian Foreign Minister to arrive for a group picture ahead of their meeting at the foreign ministry's Villa Borsig at lake Tegel in Berlin Sept. 12.
Because of the structural defects of the euro, the European authorities have had to become masters of the art of muddling through one crisis after another. This practice is popularly known as kicking the can down the road although it would be more accurate to describe it as kicking the can uphill so that it keeps coming back. But Europe now faces at least five crises at the same time: four internal ones - the euro, Greece, migration, and the British referendum on whether to remain in the EU - and an external one, Russian aggression against Ukraine. The various crises tend to reinforce one another. Both the public and the authorities are overwhelmed. What can be done to arrest and reverse the process of disintegration?