Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said he will ask EU leaders for legally binding guarantees to ensure an association agreement with Ukraine will not create a defense guarantee or become a step towards membership of the bloc for the country.
In an interview with the Financial Times published Friday, Rutte warned that if the Netherlands does not get such assurances at a meeting of EU leaders in Brussels next week, it will put to a vote in parliament a law the next day that “will state that we will not ratify the association agreement.”
Rutte said he will not argue for a …read more
Source: POLITICO – Europe Edition
