Poroshenko: All European Union member states ratify EU-Ukraine Association Agreement

[uhnope]

Source: Kyiv Post

All European Union member state have now ratified the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement, and while EU membership is still a distant prospect for Ukraine, the completion of the ratification process paves the way for a free trade regime between Ukraine and EU to take effect on Jan. 1, 2016.

European Union member state have now ratified the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement, and while EU membership is still a distant prospect for Ukraine, the completion of the ratification process paves the way for a free trade regime between Ukraine and EU to take effect on Jan. 1, 2016.

The local parliament in Brussels was the last to ratify the Association Agreement and thus complete the process, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Nov. 20 wrote on Twitter, hailing the landmark in the nation’s efforts to integrate with Western institutions. In Belgium, international accords needed approval of local elected bodies to take effect.

The agreement incorporates Ukraine in the internal market of the European Union in a step-by-step process as the nation meets the conditions laid out in the free-trade agreement.

Read more: http://www.kyivpost.com/content/kyiv-post-plus/poroshenko-vows-killers-of-maidan-protesters-will-go-to-prison-402545.html

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The Ukraine is desperate to be a part of the EU and to get away from Putin's control. You can't blame them.

[Duckhunter935]

1. Sooner the better

[JackRiddler]

2. "The Ukraine" is a rump state at war with its own citizens.

[forest444]

3. With a price tag of 5 billion taxpayer dollars, it's our baby.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141029560#post16

And what a baby. http://news.yahoo.com/ukrainian-ultranationalist-party-svoboda-history-violence-211617262.html



Forget Porkyshenko. This is the real leader of today's Ukraine. Did anyone honestly think the Russians would sit by and leave a neo-Nazi regime at its doorstep to its own devices?

[uhnope]

4. lol. you're joking, right?

that's like saying Michael Savage is the real leader of the USA.

You like to point at neo-Nazis and ultranationalists. So what about Putin's fascism?

[MBS]

5. " " " "

[left-of-center2012]

6. "Did anyone honestly think the Russians would sit by and leave a neo-Nazi regime at its doorstep"

Because Russia is such a democracy loving government?

[JackRiddler]

7. Because it's a security state and there is a political issue

of the Russian-Ukrainians who have support in Russia. The point is not whether the motives are noble - when are they, in geopolitics. They are predictable. A coup in Kiev brings Ukrainian fascists into the governing coalition, and the new government attacks the Russians in Ukraine - what do you think follows?