安格拉·默克尔、尼古拉·萨科奇和戈登·布朗似乎更加清楚欧盟东部的安全问题，因此或许愿意立即采取决定性的行动，而不是像2004年乌克兰陷入危机时他们的前任那样不知所措。
Angela Merkel, Nicolas Sarkozy, and Gordon Brown appear to have a clearer appreciation of the Union’s security problems to its east, and so may find the will to act decisively now, rather than dither as their predecessors did when Ukraine moved into crisis in 2004.