A weakening magnet.

This article discusses the effects of the Ukrainian and Belarus elections on the European Union (EU). In Ukraine, the pro-Russian party that topped the parliamentary poll is not opposed to the EU. However, commission officials are edgy about the Balkans. Pro-EU governments in the region are under attack from nationalists for being stooges of a union. The EU cannot afford a violent Balkans. It too would suffer if Ukraine came to rely more closely on Russia.