Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko has just visited Bonn, Germany, for several days with her European fellow party members, taking part in a conference of the European People's Party (EPP).

This is the European Parliament's largest association that consists of 74 parties from 39 countries, including the 27 countries of the European Union. Tymoshenko's Fatherland is an associate member of the EPP, which unites right-centre and conservative parties.

President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko, who also belongs to the right-centre and conservatives, was also invited but he did not show up. EPP Secretary General Antonio Lopez Isturiz noted Yushchenko did not explain his absence in any way.

Yushchenko's Ukraine looks suspended in its relations with the European Union. Diplomats in Brussels and other major European capitals do not hide the impression that nobody in Great Europe has the will to support any of the candidates in the January 17 presidential elections.

In Brussels' view, events in Ukraine are an extraordinary and dangerous phenomenon. EU Ambassador to Kiev Jose Manuel Pinto Teixeira talked to journalists about Ukraine the other day: "The country today is in many aspects like 20 years ago." This is not a very flattering description. Usually ambassadors do not make such open statements about the country in which they serve. Apparently, Brussels is irritated by the developments in Ukraine if it openly neglects elementary diplomatic ethics.

The IMF loaned about 16 billion USD to Ukraine but immediately froze it when the Ukrainian parliament voted for greater spending on social needs. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) blocked the transfer of a 300 million USD loan to Ukraine for the lack of any economic reform in Ukraine. Europe is still hoping to adapt Ukraine's political structure to European standards and perform a genetic self-identification, but the mutations in Kiev are invariably ruining these attempts.