The European Idea Unites the Ukrainians
Deutsche Fassung
Abstract
The year 2004 will enter European history books as an important milestone in “the era of the great integration”. The European Union’s eastern expansion and the “Orange Revolution” in Ukraine are closely linked. With its peaceful revolution, Ukraine showed that it is an organic component of democratic Europe. The EU is called on not to make promises that it can’t fulfil but to offer Ukraine a clear perspective for EU accession so that the country can see through the tasks of Europeanization at home. Ukraine will reject no form of cooperation so long as it serves the strategic goal of full EU membership.
(Osteuropa 7/2005, pp. 117–122)