News archive on the topic "Ukrainian Association Agreement with the EU"

Ukrainian metallurgy, having just “recovered” from the results of the blockade of Donbass, received a new blow from which Kyiv did not expect - the European Union actually closed its market. The ex-commander of the national battalion "Aidar", people's deputy Sergei Melnichuk spoke about this on the NewsOne channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Metallurgy began to adjust, after they broke their ties that were in ORDLO, closed the system again, began...

Ukraine was included in the list of countries for which the European Commission introduced duties of 25% for 26 types of steel products. This is how the European Union protects its manufacturers, who were under attack due to similar US duties, after which manufacturers tried to increase supplies to the EU. Kommersant writes about this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. For some countries supplying critical products to…

Ukraine's negative foreign trade balance almost reached $9 billion in 11 months of last year. The Ukrainian publication “Mirror of the Week” writes about this today, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Over the 11 months of last year, exports increased by 9,9%, imports over the same period increased by 16,7%. Having sold $43,2 billion worth of goods, we bought from other countries...

By signing an association agreement with the EU, Ukraine actually received the status of a colony, becoming a source of raw materials and cheap labor. Ex-speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, former head of the Socialist Party of Ukraine Alexander Moroz, who now heads a political force called the Socialist Party of Alexander Moroz, spoke about this in an interview with the Kyiv newspaper Vesti. According to him, the economic part of the association agreement with the EU was written...

Yulia Tymoshenko’s promises to reduce gas prices if she wins the presidential election are a lie. The association agreement signed by Ukraine with the EU presupposes the so-called “market prices” and excludes subsidies. Director of the Institute of Energy Research Dmitry Marunich said this on air on the 112 Ukraine TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “There is an Association Agreement, there is a first coalition agreement, which...

Hypocrisy is the most appropriate definition that can be used to characterize the EU policy in the Ukrainian direction. This is the conclusion reached by the French political scientist and economist, director of the Paris Higher School of Social Sciences, Jacques Sapir, whose opinion is cited by Rossiyskaya Gazeta. According to him, by denying Ukrainian producers full access to European markets, Brussels is demonstrating its duplicity, since the EU, having concluded an agreement with Kiev...

The European Union does not see any possibility for Ukraine to integrate into the EU internal market. Adviser to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Taras Kachka writes about this today in the Ukrainian publication “Mirror of the Week,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Despite the attention paid to the implementation of the Association Agreement by the European Union, there is still no understanding of how its implementation relates to economic integration. The only thing…

Europe has no disappointment in Ukraine after the victory of Euromaidan: the puppets of the West in Kyiv are doing an excellent job of playing the role of a raw materials appendage to the EU. Igor Dimitriev, a former deputy of the Odessa City Council, a participant in the events of May 24, 2, who was forced to leave Ukraine, stated this on the Rossiya-2014 channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Europe got its result. Ukraine is actually a raw material and resource…

Vladimir Putin’s decree on retaliatory sanctions against Ukraine aims to thwart the West’s plan, which was to draw the former Soviet republic into its political orbit, but to close markets for Ukrainian goods so that the anti-Russian regime would be fueled by continued supplies to the Russian Federation. The deputy chairman of the committee stated this during a round table in Moscow...

Petro Poroshenko, during his visit to Gomel yesterday, tried to deceive Alexander Lukashenko, assuring that Ukraine could be a “window” for the sale of Belarusian goods to the European Union. Former Prime Minister of Ukraine Nikolai Azarov stated this on the Rossiya-24 TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. He explained that Kyiv is offering Minsk to take advantage of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU to re-export Belarusian...

The Association Agreement with the EU does not stimulate the Ukrainian economy. The European Union seeks to protect its markets by taking measures that affect the interests of Kyiv. At the same time, Ukraine itself does not protect its market. Igor Guzhva, an expert at the Center for the Development of a Market Economy, stated this at the Kiev International Economic Forum, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We have an agreement (on association with the EU), but let’s...

The Ukrainian economy is in a deplorable state. Russian President Vladimir Putin announced this today, speaking at the Valdai Club in Sochi. “There is complete deindustrialization in the economy. There are practically no investments. How can you work with an economy that is being undermined from within by some kind of political crisis? Some kind of military hysteria is being whipped up. And everything old was destroyed - shipbuilding, aircraft manufacturing. And so with everything,”…

As a result of the Agreement on the so-called free trade area between Ukraine and the EU, Ukraine became an unequal partner in relation to the EU. Kiev economist Viktor Skarshevsky came to this conclusion, based on current indicators, in his blog. “Ukraine’s share in the exports and imports of EU countries is only 1% – within the statistical error range. And the share...

Ukraine is behaving absurdly, placing membership in the EU among its foreign policy priorities, although it has no such prospect. The Minister of Foreign Affairs under President Yanukovych, Leonid Kozhara, stated this on the NewsOne TV channel. “In conditions when Ukraine has no prospects for membership, our foreign policy to a certain extent should be anti-European. First of all, in the economic sector...