Ukraine fulfills 15% of Ukraine-EU Association Agreement

The Ukrainian government has fulfilled about 15% of
the Ukraine-EU Association Agreement since it was signed on June 27, 2014, Ukrainian
President Poroshenko said on Nov. 20. “There is a lot of work ahead of us,” he
said, stressing that while Ukraine has the right to membership, it needs to
fulfill EU criteria “and that depends only on us.

Zenon Zawada: Is 15% a reasonable pace or too slow? EU authorities recently said it’s too slow. Part of the problem has been Russia’s military
aggression. Another part of the problem has been resistance from the Poroshenko
administration itself, but we can’t point to any other politician or party that
would have pursued integration any more quickly or effectively. And in the
event that Poroshenko is re-elected (which is the most likely scenario), we don’t
see integration efforts accelerating at all. That’s the reality of being a
country on a geopolitical fault line.