Only Europe can save Ukraine from Putin and Trump – but will it? | Timothy Garton Ash

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Some 80% of Russia’s seaborne oil exports go through the Danish straits in “shadow fleet” ships that generally don’t meet international safety and environmental standards.
48% : If in 2030 most of Ukraine is sovereign, secure, a “steel porcupine” capable of deterring any future Russian attack; if it has a dynamic economy, attracting foreign investment, offering good jobs to veterans and persuading young Ukrainians to come home from abroad; if it further has a halfway decent democracy, a strong civil society and is seriously on track to become a member of the EU; then Ukraine will have won.
46% : If, at their summit on 18 December, EU leaders agree a way to use the frozen Russian assets held in Belgium, the gaping hole in Ukraine’s budget can be filled for at least the next two years.
43% : The procedural slowness of the EU.

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