UKRAINE: EU Losing Patience With Kiev, Exposing Weakness Towards Russia.

GUARDIA/UK/ COMMENTARY/ Simon Tisdale/
"EU officials are casting a wary eye at Ukraine as it prepares for watershed presidential elections in January that look likely to spark a lurch back towards the Russian sphere five years after the former Soviet republic was supposedly set free by the "Orange Revolution". The cautious approach in Brussels is again raising questions about the EU's apparent lack of a strategic vision – and political courage – in its dealing with its eastern neighbours."