Borys Tarasyuk is former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, current Head of the Committee on European Integration of the Ukrainian Parliament and Chair of the political party ‘Narodnyi Rukh’.
Negotiations over the Ukraine's EU Association Agreement were finalised last month, but Yulia Tymoshenko's continued imprisonment prevented the EU from signing off on a deal. Borys Tarasyuk wonders whether the Europeans may have overestimated their leverage in the matter, and whether their approac