The price Russia and Germany should have to pay for the completion of North Stream 2 is the full integration of Ukraine into the EU's economic and energy systems.
That means a final pathway to full access to the EU's Single Market on the level enjoyed by Norway.
That means a final pathway to full access to the EU's Single Market on the level enjoyed by Norway.
The objections that giving Ukrainians full access to the Single Market's four freedoms will lead to a migration wave are outdated. Through visa-free agreements on travel and the particularities of Poland's labour permit system, the Ukrainian migration wave has been on for years
Rather than engaging in futile blocking moves on a deal between Washington and Berlin, Ukraine and its East European partners should work to ensure that the price Germany has to pay for North Stream 2 to East European EU partners and Kyiv should be as steep as possible
Putin and future Russian leaders should be put in a position where they ask themselves if the complete integration of Ukraine into the EU's wider system based on the four freedoms was really worth the completion of North Stream 2
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