European Union Expansion and Ukraine: Borderland

In: The world today, Band 60, Heft 4, S. 11-13

Abstract

Ukraine's arrival on the border of the newly expanding European Union places it between EU enlargement & a more assertive Russia. While there is short-term politicoeconomic affinity with Russia, Ukrainians are more sympathetic toward the West than are Russians, & its geographical size is more conducive to the EU's brand of governance than is Russia's massive expanse. The possibility of Ukraine eventually joining the EU is considered. J. Zendejas