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Ukraine Interview

"Ukraine needs to put its house in order"

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Published 01 January, 2009, 18:31

Why would Ukraine syphon off gas from Europe when it has ambitions to join the European Union, asks William Wilson, an economist with the Vanguard Group in Paris.

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