Dmytro VYDRIN, Director of the European University of Integration and Development:
“Today the question is not about how realistic is Ukraine’s integration but the terms for it. Achieving this goal is not only realistic but inevitable. Even if Ukraine will resist it, sooner or later general globalization tendency drive it into Europe by force. Hegel once said, “The fate leads those who agree with it and pushes those who don’t.” I wish that Ukraine goes to Europe hand by hand with the fate instead of being drugged their by the hair.
“Today we should speak not about the final goal but the steps, ways, and, most important, the terms for its achieving. The time frame depends on us. Under a favorable scenario we could enter Europe in five years. However, today I don’t see enough efforts for this. For instance, Ukraine had governments which did not address the issue of its joining the World Trade Organization for two years. A favorable scenario would become possible if we work in the regime of coordinating our laws, conditions, and efforts with the European tendencies. A weighted scenario gives ten years for Ukraine’s road to the European Union, while the most pessimistic one says that we will meet our goal approximately in 2020. But this is not the scenario under which we are pulled into Europe by the hair.”
