The question should probably have been asked whether Ukraine was ready, given the state of its political and economic development, to conclude such a deal, which requires adopting an enormous amount of existing EU rules and regulations. But once the Commission got started, not a single mistake was made. Except for the one catastrophic mistake to wage these negotiations as if they were taking place in a strategic and geopolitical void, as if it were a mere technical matter, that could easily be left to the technicians. In reality this was an eminently political issue.
