Without wanting it, Ukraine has become Russia’s Trojan horse in the EU
The EU leadership was unable to convince the union members to complete the ratification of the association agreement with Ukraine and provide Ukraine with a visa-free regime.
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Ruslan Bortnik, director of the Ukrainian Institute of Policy Analysis and Management, stated this at a press conference in Kyiv.
“The failure of Maidan is already acting as a boomerang in Europe, because Schulz is about to resign, and Juncker’s chair is shaking. This is, among other things, a consequence of the fact that these politicians were unable to convince the EU countries either to complete the ratification of the association agreement with Ukraine, or to provide Ukraine with a visa-free regime, which Germany, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Hungary are opposed to today,” the expert emphasized .
“To some extent, the weakness and inability of senior European officials to implement European policies on the stated principles leads to their resignation, which will mean a reformatting of the EU governance mechanism itself. Still, Ukraine was able to play the role of a Trojan horse, but probably not against Russia and the post-Soviet space, as planned in 2014, but against the European Union,” Bortnik believes.
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