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Ukraine ratifies association agreement with EU
The European Parliament and Ukraine’s parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, today (16 September) ratified a political and trade deal between the European Union and Ukraine, completing their role in a treaty that has already shaped the history of Ukraine. In both parliaments, deputies overwhelmingly backed the treaty. Approval had been so assumed...
Ukraine gives rebels ‘special status’, ratifies EU treaty
Ukraine has granted semi-autonomy to pro-Russia rebels, the same day as ratifying a strategic EU treaty. …read more Source:...
EU and Ukraine ratify the Association Agreement
Author(s): Dan Alexe 51571914.jpg The parliaments of Ukraine and the European Union have simultaneously ratified today the long-disputed agreement on closer ties. The Association Agreement establishes a deep political association and free-trade area between Ukraine and the EU. Refusal to sign the same agreement sparked months of protests leading...
[Ticker] EU and Ukrainian parliaments ratify treaty
The European Parliament and the Ukrainian assembly have ratified an EU association and free trade agreement in a joint session set up by video-link. The trade part enters into life in 2016 under an EU-Russia-Ukraine deal to put off Russian trade penalties and lifting of Ukraine tariffs on EU goods. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] Nobel prize winner: Putin makes me sick
Nobel literature prize winner Herta Mueller, a German author who grew up in Communist Romania, said during a literature festival in Denmarkthat what Russian president Vladimir Putin is doing in Ukraine “makes me sick”. She said Putin should ensure Russian “people have teeth and shoes” instead of waging wars. …read...
[Ticker] Kiev offers special status to eastern regions
The Ukrainian government has tabled a draft law that would grant “special status” to the breakaway Donetsk and Luhansk regions for three years. The bill includes amnesty for those involved in the fighting, Russian as an official language, local elections, subsidies and the right to form local police forces. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] Pro-EU Ukrainians outraged by trade deal delay
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko is being criticised by his supporters for bowing to Russian pressure and postponing the implementation of an EU free trade deal. “I am speechless. The last time this happened, we had EuroMaidan,” central Dnipropetrovsk region deputy governor Svyatoslav Oliynik wrote in a Facebook post. …read...
[Ticker] EU far right monitors Russian vote in St Petersburg
Russian daily Novaya Gazeta reports that far-right EU parties sent monitors to local elections in St Petersburg this weekend. The monitors, many of whom blessed the Crimea referendum in March, came from Austria, Belgium, Germany, Hungary, Italy, and Poland. They said the St Peterbsurg vote was fair despite NGO complaints. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] Russia-EU gas flows back to ‘normal’
Russia’s deliveries of gas to Poland and Slovakia have returned to “normal”, the EU commission said on Monday, following reductions of up to 45% last week. A spokeswoman noted that Polish authorities say the reductions could be due to “technical reasons”, amid concerns they were prompted by the Ukraine crisis....
[Ticker] EU and Ukraine to ratify treaty despite agreement on delay
The EU commission said Monday the EU and Ukrainian parliaments will Tuesday ratify the EU-Ukraine free trade treaty despite an agreement with Russia to delay its implementation until 2016. A commission spokeswoman noted the delay is “pertaining to concerns raised by Russia” but won’t harm “the integrity” of the pact....
