BRUSSELS: Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko will press European Union leaders on Thursday to hold firm against Russia amid fears that US President-elect Donald Trump may ditch the Western coalition against Moscow. Poroshenko’s summit with Donald Tusk and Jean-Claude Juncker, the European Union’s top officials, will focus on political reforms demanded by Brussels in exchange for visa-free travel for Ukraine. But he is also expected to push them to maintain sanctions against Russia over the annexation of Crimea and the conflict in eastern Ukraine at a time when Trump’s election has thrown US support into doubt. Trump’s election victory has been …read more
Source: The Manila Times
