Peculiarities of the EU’s relations with its neighbours.

I do think we are a bit peculiar when dealing with our neighbours from the East like Belarus, Georgia and especially Ukraine. Why especially? Well it’s rather simple imo...
You see when Ukraine has pro-western or to be more exact pro-American pols in power then we give them our total support both in financial and political field regardless of the fact that the country is deep in chaos, investment risks just go off the scale, economic bankruptcy is only a step or two away and so forth... While when leaders of some other political line, come to power and bring some sort of order with them (at least Ukraine’s ratings are going up a bit now) then we kinda restrain from the country...
However what for we’re doing it is quite beyond me? Basically it must be much simpler and much more beneficial to work with them because they won’t be living only on our grants and charity gifts as the previous guys used to do... Queer, isn’t it?