In the hopes of continued integration with both the EU and Nato, President Poroshenko has announced plans for a European patronage system throughout Donbass in preparations for the 2019 election. Describing this plan the President stated, "We have already discussed several times with the leaders of the European Union the program of establishing a kind of patronage by certain countries over certain cities and towns of Donbass, let Germany take responsibility for Kramatorsk, let Greece for Mariupol, let Great Britain for Volnovaha, let other countries take Severodonetsk, Lisichansk, Avdeevka."