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"Ukraine claims that the trial and imprisonment of Yulia Tymoshenko is all about the fight against corruption, yet apart from jailing the former Prime Minister, the government in Kiev has failed to show its reformist colours, especially when it comes to tackling corruption. According to the Heritage Foundation’s 2012 Index, Ukraine’s economic freedom is the worst in Europe. Entrepreneurism is stifled by widespread corruption, with trade barriers and an unfriendly investment climate undermining economic growth. President Yanukovych has said that the current ‘pause’ in EU-Ukraine relations may actually benefit the two sides. I hope that Yanukovych uses this pause to reflect on whether detaining Tymoshenko is the best way of addressing corruption in his dysfunctional country. He needs to take a long hard look at the independence of the Ukrainian courts. He needs to ask himself whether a corrupt judiciary coupled with the incarceration of the leader of the opposition is the right way to fulfil the promise he made in 2010 for a Ukraine which was ‘a free state, where rights and freedoms are the highest values’. I hope that after hitting the ‘pause’ button, Yanukovych doesn’t choose to rewind. Otherwise, the EU will have to press ‘stop’."@en1
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