The European Union and Ukraine signed a political association agreement today, after Russia took steps toward annexing Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula, bringing us full circle to the very issue that led to the burgeoning of the Maidan protest movement and the overthrow of Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych in February.
The deal, signed on the sidelines of an EU summit in Brussels, brings Ukraine and the EU closer to political and economic cooperation, while the free trade portion of the deal will have to wait until Ukraine holds new presidential elections in May.
The deal, signed on the sidelines of an EU summit in Brussels, brings Ukraine and the EU closer to political and economic cooperation, while the free trade portion of the deal will have to wait until Ukraine holds new presidential elections in May.