What unreasonable public expectations regarding the EU might get in the way of Ukraine’s eurointegration?

Ukraine has restarted exports of its own natural gas to Europe after fifteen years, exporting a relatively small amount to Slovakia, seemingly to demonstrate to the Ukrainian gas sector how easily it can be done

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has announced he will seek reelection in the March presidential election, and vowed to press for European Union and NATO membership

Russia has banned chocolate, beer and nappies made in Ukraine, in its latest economic sanctions on Kyiv

What ails the European allies of Donald Trump

The path from kroon to euro and decisions from 20 years back that make Estonia’s finance minister proud today

Should the United Kingdom leave the European Union? It is the issue that has split Britain’s politicians

Ukraine must have its own national history, not one dictated by Moscow. And the Ukrainian Insurgent Army is one of its elements.

In order to avoid continued manipulation by the Ukrainian government, the West should focus on direct contacts with Ukrainian society more, and thus form its own concept of the processes in Ukraine

Ukraine's joining the EU would dramatically and irreversibly change the political landscape of Europe, end the division of Europe and close the saga of the Iron Curtain and the Cold War

Does Kyiv truly want to join both the EU and the Customs Union? If it is bluffing, then who is the true partner and who is the fake?

Andrew Wilson, political analyst and Senior Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, talks to The Ukrainian Week about the Ukraine-EU Summit and Yanukovych's tactics in negotiations with Brussels

Is European culture a fantasy? Is it more or less so than European politics? These are the questions that cross my mind over and over again when I try to think of how to reverse the ongoing tragedy of the EU – namely, its silent and slow demise, which is a fact of reality, to my dismay.

Jerzy Buzek was one of the first European politicians who said that the Yulia Tymoshenko case was politically motivated. Even after his term as a European MP expired at the beginning of this year, Jerzy Buzek continues to monitor the situation in Ukraine.

To have a plausible political-historical narrative nowadays means to have viable politics, rather than policies masquerading as politics.

Varying interpretations of 20th century history prevent the movement to acknowledge Communist crimes from spreading throughout Europe

Ukraine is no longer a priority for Western countries

Genevieve Garrigos, President of Amnesty International France, talks about how to defend human rights

Ukraine’s public organizations are hampered by outdated legislation and red tape

The resolution on the situation in Ukraine recently adopted by the European Parliament signified the arrival of a new phase in relations between Ukraine and the EU

The EU’s bureaucratic machine's reaction to “signals” from Kyiv will be a slowdown in all areas of cooperation and the EU's taking a wait-and-see stance

The Ukrainian Week follows Western reaction to the verdict against ex-Premier Yulia Tymoshenko. The shock caused by the moves of the Ukrainian government is fading. Experts and politicians analyze the new reality of Ukraine in the international arena

The position of non-democratic forces at the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly keeps it from fulfilling its fundamental functions of protecting human rights and the rule of law to the full extent

At the Eastern Partnership summit, EU leaders indicated that there is a direct link between Ukraine’s European integration prospects and the Yulia Tymoshenko case

Steven Pifer: “You have some people in Europe and the US asking if it is time to apply possible restrictions on certain Ukrainian officials”.

The EU is leaning towards signing an Association Agreement and Free Trade Agreement with Ukraine but ratification will depend on whether political repression stops

This time, Europe said a deliberate "No!" during the Yalta Forum, instead of its common "Yes".

Quite unexpectedly, the world community censures Kyiv for Tymoshenko’s arrest

The ruling party is doing its best to make the West and the world perceive Tymoshenko`s trial only as a political process

Hanne Severinsen: “I try to promote European values when anyone asks me to”

Former French Ambassador to Ukraine, Philippe de Suremain: “Ukraine is the cornerstone of the future Europe”

The government has failed to convince either Ukrainians or the world community that the Tymoshenko case is not politically motivated

Prominent French academic Daniel Beauvois talks about quasi-patriotism, national heroes, distorted myths and the status of historical science in Ukraine

Poland has the Presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU) since July. Will Ukraine benefit from this?

A simplified system for crossing the border? Going to the EU visa-free? Every year, the government keeps promising to speed up these processes but for some reason, getting the sacramental Schengen visa is becoming ever more difficult. However, almost 50,000 Ukrainians resolved their European problem a long time ago, and most important of all - forever! They all have two passports – Ukrainian and Romanian.

Estonian Minister of Economic Affairs and Communications Juhan Parts: “Building a new democratic state in Estonia and implementing e-government went hand in hand”

No future can be built without respect for history from both sides

Involvement of the society into implementation of state’s policies is of a reason only in case, when the public opinion and opinion of independent experts are heard by the state. In Ukraine neither of the above mentioned is taken into account.

Western leaders' selective approach to “defending civic rights” plays into the hands of Yanukovych

The European middle class opted for national identity over belonging to a specific social class, turning itself into the foundation of European state building, while the architects of independent Ukraine ignored it

Mark Spörrle, an editor with Die Zeit and author of several bestsellers, is taking down notes that can demolish European prejudices about various countries. In Kyiv, he got rid of some, but not all, stereotypical notions about Ukraine

The ten-year program to overcome poverty in Ukraine is a fiasco as some regions have actually found themselves on the verge of poverty

A poll conducted in April by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology showed no changes in the trend that has been observed since last summer: Ukrainians are growing less and less supportive of the authorities

Russia utilises express diplomacy and media campaigns to have its South Stream overcome its construction being behind that of Nabucco

The nature of anti-Ukrainian provocations

In 2011, the Eastern Partnership is very likely to be marginalized in the EU’s external policy

Russian companies quietly taking over Ukrainian industry as Moscow pressures Kyiv to keep it from setting up a free trade zone with the EU

Lithuanian Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius: “Do not lose yourself in prejudices towards Europe”

“A willingness to carry out reforms is a good sign, but such reforms should not be carried out by sacrificing quality”, EU Ambassador, Jose Manuel Pinto Teixeira

Faults that force Western politicians to resign sometimes seem comic to Ukrainians, while Europeans perceive them as threats to society

The west won't tolerate fascism among its own, but is ready to tolerate it wuth Russia

Vytautas Landsbergis, the mastermind of Lithuanian independence, believes that Europe has left the era of big-personality politicians in the past. They have been replaced by those who “listen to themselves only.”

French political analyst and geographer Michel Foucher talks about Ukraine’s Euro-integration chances, the advantages of the soft-power strategy, and Europe within its new borders