Ukraine’s EU Integration Strategy: "Give Me Money or I’ll Shoot Myself"

“Telling us that we won’t implement reforms until you give us what was promised (namely the membership), reminds me of a scene from some movie in which a robber enters a bank, puts a gun to his own temple, and says, ‘Give me money, or I’ll shoot myself.’ That’s not the right way. Promising the collapse of your own country unless it is admitted into the EU isn’t effective,” Ilves said, to the laughter and applause from the audience.

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