This Blog has been consistently against the western expansion of the EU and especially to any formal relationship with the Ukraine. So it is pleasing to see that the Dutch voted against the pre-applicant status that was proposed by one or other of the various opaque organs of governance which drive the EU wagon. This concession to the Ukraine has to be ratified by each member country. Although the vote was on a low turnout, it serves to emphasise that the EU public are more assertive than before. This is good for democracy.
The current Ukraine government has a lot wrong with it. It came to power as a consequence of the previous legitimately elected administration and its president being toppled by street protests and riots in which far right Nazi admirers played a major role. It then fomented conditions which led to civil war and the loss to separatists of large parts of its country for which it blames everybody else. Wherever this is going is hard to predict, but it cannot be into the EU. If and when GB is playing a constructive role in Europe again it needs to add its No to the whole Ukraine project.
