BRUSSELS—Members of the Ukrainian Parliament and the European Parliament voted today to ratify an agreement that sparked unrest in Ukraine almost a year ago.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko,called the vote “historic.”
The association agreement lays a framework for political cooperation and better trade relations between the two, requiring Ukraine to make significant political and economic reforms, but bringing it closer politically and economically to the E.U..
The agreement got 355 votes in the Ukrainian Parliamant in Kiev with no votes against it, and 26 members abstaining. In the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, 535 voted for it with 127 against …read more
Source: The Epoch Times
