In pursuit of its own political goals of European policy are not only took into account Russia's attitudes towards the idea of integration of Ukraine into the European Union, but do not even have to understand how to treat political forces in the city.

It is this, according to some experts, and led to such disastrous for a nation outcome. The problems of Europe and Ukraine has already started at the turn of the preparation of the Association. "The European Union and Ukraine have spent years negotiating an Association agreement. They have signed letters of intent received agreement from Cabinet and Parliament, spent countless diplomatic visits and exchange of views. But ultimately, on the evening of November 28, 2013 in an old castle in Vilnius, it became clear that all efforts were in vain. It was a historical earthquake", - stated in the German publication Spiegel.

With all this at the same time, nobody knew all the consequences of similar solutions. "Everybody understood that efforts to deepen relations between Ukraine and the EU did not succeed. But, at this point, no one was fully aware of the consequences of this failure: it will lead to 1 of the major crises around the world since the cold war, and that leads to a redrawing of borders in Europe, it will put the continent on the brink of war. It was a moment, Europe has lost the Russian Federation", - noticed by the authors.

Since 1991, when Ukraine was formed as a free state, she has always tried to provide its rapprochement with Western countries. But in Kiev did not forget to look for the fact that relations with Moscow remained the partner level. The pressure on the country to finally decide where to go - to the East or to the West led to disastrous results.

A similar crisis was made possible mainly due to the large number of failures of European diplomacy, which of course did not take into account the distinctive features of States with which it needs to conduct business. "The history of the preparation of the agreement is filled with blunders, mistakes, failures, and white spots. This is a chronicle of the foreign policy failures", - emphasized in the publication.

The European Union until the very last stage did not take into account the interests of the Russian Federation, which definitely opposed the expansion of the Western sphere of influence. Responsible for the development of domestic crisis lies on the German political elite, even on German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Merkel over many years has demonstrated itself as a clever way to defuse tensions or to assist in the development of concrete solutions. But even she ignored all the warning signs. Now she reminds us that the cold war has ended and the Russian Federation need to talk, but some experts fear that this realization came to political figures too late.
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