EU ‘must reopen dialogue’ with Ukraine

Report of a FT interview with Ukraine’s former president and Orange Revolution leader Viktor Yushchenko, December 2012. He urged the European Union to reopen dialogue with the country or risk seeing it become a 'second Belarus', cut off from the west.

Mr Yushchenko said EU states should end a 'pause' in talks on Ukraine’s closer integration into Europe caused by the imprisonment of his one-time Orange ally, Yulia Tymoshenko, and concerns over reversals of democracy in the country.

ESO: Background information: What now for EU-Ukraine relations? http://www.europeansources.info/record/what-now-for-eu-ukraine-relations/

EUObserver, 11.12.12: EU dangles carrot for wayward Ukraine leader http://euobserver.com/foreign/118478

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