Melinda Haring: Worried about Brexit? No, scared, says Ukraine’s former prime minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk
Ukraine's former Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk during his visit to U.S. on June 27-30, 2016.
"I'm not worried [about Brexit]. I'm scared," said Arseniy Yatsenyuk at the Atlantic Council on June 30. In one of his first public appearances in Washington since stepping down as Ukraine's prime minister on April 14, Yatsenyuk urged Europe to get its act together. Brexit, he said, is a "huge geopolitical crisis": the United Kingdom's exit from the EU could split the union, weaken Europe, trigger a domino effect, and undermine trust and confidence in the European idea among Ukrainians. "We need a united Europe," he said.
