KIEV — Ukraine’s complex, at times Byzantine, politics continues to confound and confuse.
Since independence, the main drivers of positive change in the country have been mass civic movements, Western economic pressure and incentives, and the necessity to act to avert economic disaster.
Nothing that will happen under a new government is likely to change that. But a new government is exactly what Ukraine is about to get.
In the coming days, President Petro Poroshenko will likely succeed in pushing through the election of his protégé, parliamentary speaker Volodymyr Groysman, as prime minister, and a new government will embark on a new reform …read more
Source: POLITICO – Europe Edition
