Ukraine’s policy of EU integration involves a slow but steady march towards a rules-based, competitive market economy, the opposite of Russia’s capricious top-down model.
was thickly coated in the kind of idealistic rhetoric many Western Europeans discreetly roll their eyes at.
It matters practically, too, because it shapes our perception of the choices we face. The Western debate on the war in Ukraine tends to treat it as essentially about borders: who governs which territories. It has paid far too little attention toAdvertisement Vladimir Putin’s deft blend of propaganda and repression has politically pacified much of Russia’s population, and solidified his dictatorship.There are many other differences between the two systems. Over 30 years, the hallmarks of Ukrainian public life have become flourishing political competition and an indomitable civil society.
Above all, Ukraine’s policy of EU integration, from the 2014 association agreement to its candidacy for membership, involves a slow but steady march towards a rules-based, competitive market economy – the opposite of Russia’s capricious top-down model.
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