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Parliamentry defeat not the end of EU efforts to bring Ukraine under its wing

The resounding parliamentary defeat suffered by the Ukrainian opposition will disappoint Yulia Tymoshenko's Batkivshchyna (Fatherland) party.

It will also irk the European Union, especially big-hitter Germany, which is used to getting its own way in redrawing the continent's post-1991 map.

It has been practically one-way traffic since then, with Berlin leading the charge to break up the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

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