Ahead of an EU summit in Riga on its Eastern Partnership program, which starts tonight and extends into tomorrow, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin announced that he wants concrete assurances from the EU’s leaders that Ukraine will become an EU member state, and that visa-free travel will be extended to its citizens next year. “We want to see light at the end of the tunnel,” he told a German paper.Ukraine is likely to be disappointed, according to a draft of the meeting’s resolutions leaked to the press. The document makes no explicit guarantees on eventual membership, and doesn’t even move …read more
Source: The American Interest
