European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker is “sad” about the results of a Dutch referendum on an EU-Ukraine deal, an emotion shared Thursday by many European politicians to what is being seen as another sign of voters’ antipathy to Brussels.
Dutch voters on Wednesday overwhelmingly rejected a cooperation agreement between the EU and Ukraine that opponents portrayed as the first step in a largely undesired accession of Ukraine to the bloc. While the vote is non-binding it requires the Dutch parliament to reconsider the agreement.
The vote, coming just two months before a referendum in Britain on the U.K.’s membership in the EU, …read more
Source: European Voice
