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EU Faces Difficult Choices Over Ukraine
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WSJ's Fidler describes the views of Victor Ruhe, a former German defense minister, on the Ukraine crisis and the EU's response. The EU's position for relations with Ukraine comes under criticism for being technocratic as in earler trade and aid negotiations, and not addressing the problems which Ukraine faces. This requires closer cooperation from the EU, and some costs the EU has been unwilling to assume. Ruhe says the best response for the EU is to turn Ukraine into a European success story. This means taking on the effort to gradually transform the corrupt and inefficient political and economic system, something the EU did over many years in the Balkans. EU leaders have signed an agreement with Ukraine's new government on political dialogue and security cooperation. Critical parts of the agreement for trade, law enforcement, anticorruption actions, and macroeconomics changes, will be signed after a new government is elected in May 2014 elections. The EU is in this for the long haul as political support will be needed for a new generation of politicians.
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For Ukraine the crisis has one positive aspect of assistance on better terms and prospect of recovery under guidance from the EU, and possibly the IMF. Before the crisis the EU faced with its own financial difficulties in the eurozone was reluctant to commit large scale assistance. A pro-western government in Kiev dependent on the EU, makes it easier for the EU to design the package so that the assistance works, and necessary conditions are provided by the Ukrainian government. Previous administrations in Kiev were mired in corruption, mismanagement of the economy, and Russian meddling or pressure, which the new government has the chance to avoid this time. Long term this could also offer the prospect of Ukraine- without the Russian speaking Crimea- joining the European Union.
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