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Russia has warned of serious consequences following Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenkos signing of a deal with European Parliament President Martin Schultz.
The deal which was simultaneously ratified in Kyiv and Strasbourg will make Ukraine compliant with EU standards in areas of human rights, security and arms control and remove trade barriers.
In the Russian parliament members of President Vladimir Putins United Russia Party reacted with dismay. Franz Klintsevich said, As soon as these agreements are approved well be forced to close our borders for many goods because we clearly understand that neither Ukraine nor Russia will be able to compete with the relatively cheap high quality products from Europe.
Russia has negotiated a postponement until 2016 of the free-trade part of the deal. But the the current crisis has already hit trade ties with the neighbours imposing economic sanctions on each other.
http://www.euronews.com/2014/09/17/russia-warns-ukraine-over-historic-deal-with-the-eu/
Europe has some of the highest paid workers and strongest unions in the world. Wages in Ukraine and Russia are a fraction of what they are in Europe. They can begin to make "relatively cheap high quality products". Or they can retreat and build walls against them. The latter means their citizens get 'relatively expensive low quality products'.
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)$5 billion cookies argle bargle.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,390 posts)which, oddly enough, is what Putin says. I've never been able to work out why Nuland saying "fuck the EU" was meant to be a sign that she was taking control of Ukraine to integrate it into the EU ...
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)An anti-EU comment to try to further the EU, antisemitism on which Jewish groups have called bullshit, attempts to claim that there are no Russian troops in Crimea, followed by an admission that there were, then attempts to claim there are no Russian troops in Eastern Ukraine, followed by a request to return Russian troops captured there.
It's quite a spectacle to watch the Russian apologists in action.
BeyondGeography
(39,386 posts)GDP in neighboring Poland with slightly more people (45 million vs. 38 million) is over 2.5X more than Ukraine's. The future lies to the west. Simple.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)Maybe you can open some more Korean logging camps in Sibera for additional kickbacks!
randome
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