Why Doesn’t Europe Understand Us? - by Vitali Klitschko
If foreigners ask me questions about Ukraine, they normally ask it in a ‘when-will-this-chaos-end?’ context. At the forum in Davos people kept asking me the same questions in the same manner.
Describing the political situation I replied: In 15 years Ukraine has gone through reforms and processes Europeans used to spend decades for. We are not from the other planet for Europeans. We are from another Galaxy. In fact, Ukraine has something to offer Europe. EU needs to expand in the eastern direction since such an expansion will approach Europe to the foundation of a modern economy – oil and gas. At best politicians are trying to get away with declarations. As a result both Russia and Europe are giving up on us. They intend to build a pipeline through Baltic Sea.
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