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| Ukraine's new president to sign EU pact |
| 2014-06-20 |
| [Iran Press TV] Ukraine's new president says he will sign the economic portion of an association pact with the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... next week. On Thursday, Petro Poroshenko announced the plan to sign the pact on June 27 during a parliamentary vote of confidence for the new foreign minister, Pavlo Klimkin. The political part of the agreement was signed by interim Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk back in March. The economic section asks Ukraine to open its doors to EU's free trade zone. One condition set by the EU economic deal is that Kiev should lift import barriers. Ukraine has imposed restrictions on EU products to protect farmers and steel mills in the industrial east from direct EU competition. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Ukraine has imposed restrictions on EU products to protect farmers and steel mills in the industrial east from direct EU competition. That same east that is now Russia's? Hmmm. |
| Posted by: Squinty 2014-06-20 00:18 |