Voluntary suicide: Ukraine dreams of taking Greece’s place in the EU
Ukrainian experts call the hypothetical possibility of Ukraine joining the EU instead of Greece as voluntary suicide.
At a press conference in Kyiv, this comparison was made, in particular, by the director of the Ukrainian Policy Foundation, Kost Bondarenko, who presented the analytical report “Eurorealism: a new paradigm of Ukrainian foreign policy?”
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Journalists asked him whether Ukraine could become a replacement for the European Union if Greece leaves this association.
“Replacing a 42-million-strong Ukraine with a 10-million-strong Greece, and with a more problematic player than Greece, is simply a kind of euthanasia for the European Union, let’s speak frankly,” the Ukrainian political scientist noted, not without sarcasm. – But some hotheads in Ukraine are starting to say today that Greece will leave, and we will take its place, as if some kind of rotation is expected. No, no rotation is expected.”
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