Because of its cooperation with Europe, in the future Ukraine will have to defend its sovereignty in the East, stated Robert Zoellick, President of the World Bank (2007-2012) at the 10th Annual Meeting of YES “Changing Ukraine in a Changing World: Factors of Success” in the Livadia Palace, Crimea, on Friday.
Encouraging consumption, which underlies the pre-crisis model of economic development, has exhausted itself. This opinion was voiced by Martin Wolf, Financial Times Chief Economics Commentator. He was arguing on this issue with his old opponent Larry Summers, during a panel discussion on the global economy, at the 10th Annual Meeting of Yalta European Strategy.
The European Union finds it more and more difficult to take consolidated decisions on economic issues, stated former Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (2007-2011), Dominique Strauss-Kahn, during a panel discussion on the problems facing the global economy held on Friday 20th September at the 10th Annual Meeting of the Yalta European Strategy.
“It has been a truism for the last 200 years, that parents can expect their children to be better educated than them. This idea is now under threat,” said Lawrence Henry (Larry) Summers.
President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych offered the assistance of Ukrainian experts in the destruction of chemical weapons in Syria.
Ukraine is currently a strong focus of attention for Europe and Europeans. In just the same way Europe is the focus of Ukrainian politics. Ukraine, in its rapprochement to Europe, has to resist heavy external pressure from the antagonists to European integration.
Ukraine is on the way towards European integration, and at the same time we don’t reject cooperation with our neighbour – Russia, declared President of the state of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych, at the 10th Yalta Annual Meeting “Changing Ukraine in a Changing World: Factors of Success”, which opened on Friday in the Livadia Palace, Crimea.