Ukraine's European Revolution?

[Valmy]

Meanwhile, the EU is moving forward with trade association with Ukraine:

The Ukraine is a pretty big deadweight, can the EU economy shoulder it?  I appreciate the effort though.

[Iormlund]

I just love the Internet. 

[Valmy]

Oh my God that is fantastic 

[jimmy olsen]

Is that anime style fanart of the new attorney general!?   

[Zanza]

Meanwhile, the EU is moving forward with trade association with Ukraine:

The Ukraine is a pretty big deadweight, can the EU economy shoulder it?  I appreciate the effort though.

It's the same deal that Yanukovich didn't want to sign and that triggered the protests on the Maidan, hence "Euromaidan".

[jimmy olsen]

Meanwhile, the EU is moving forward with trade association with Ukraine:

The Ukraine is a pretty big deadweight, can the EU economy shoulder it?  I appreciate the effort though.

The EU gets new markets, and the Ukrainian businesses implode due to superior competition. As long as Ukrainians can't move en masse into other EU countries what's the down side for the EU?

[Iormlund]

I doubt it is a straight free trade deal since the EU has already announced we are dropping unilaterally pretty much all tariffs on Ukrainian goods without need for reciprocity.

[Razgovory]

Meanwhile, the EU is moving forward with trade association with Ukraine:

The Ukraine is a pretty big deadweight, can the EU economy shoulder it?  I appreciate the effort though.

The EU gets new markets, and the Ukrainian businesses implode due to superior competition. As long as Ukrainians can't move en masse into other EU countries what's the down side for the EU?

I can't see it being so beneficial to Ukraine though.  There's only so many nesting dolls and fur hats you can sell to the West.

[DGuller]

Meanwhile, the EU is moving forward with trade association with Ukraine:

The Ukraine is a pretty big deadweight, can the EU economy shoulder it?  I appreciate the effort though.

The EU gets new markets, and the Ukrainian businesses implode due to superior competition. As long as Ukrainians can't move en masse into other EU countries what's the down side for the EU?

I can't see it being so beneficial to Ukraine though.  There's only so many nesting dolls and fur hats you can sell to the West.

You sound like a man who's never tried this:

[Tamas]

I was told that Ukrainian and Russian deserts are basically just one big bomb of sugar/sweetness with no other taste.

[Valmy]

I was told that Ukrainian and Russian deserts are basically just one big bomb of sugar/sweetness with no other taste.

So...American deserts?

[DGuller]

I was told that Ukrainian and Russian deserts are basically just one big bomb of sugar/sweetness with no other taste.

Generally true, but not always.

[PJL]

Once Ukraine has held presidential elections on May 25 and a new administration is in place, the EU plans to move ahead with signing a free-trade agreement with Ukraine, giving the country unfettered access to the EU's market of 500 million consumers.

I guess Russia will invade before then, just to make sure it doesn't happen.

[Valmy]

Robert Strauss, the last US ambassador to the USSR/first US ambassador to non-Tsarist Russia, died a few days ago.  I had been thinking about him recently since he was a UT grad and we named our school of foreign affairs at the LBJ school after him and we were always hearing about his legacy forging 'peaceful relations with Russia'.

[Razgovory]

You sound like a man who's never tried this:

I am such a man.