FINANCIAL TIMES: …The ratification also follows a request from Kiev to postpone the bilateral implementation of free trade until December 2015 from November this year as originally agreed…
The 14-month suspension has triggered alarm in the EU, with many officials expressing concerns that Russia had dictated the terms of a deal that was meant to be bilaterally agreed between Brussels and Kiev. “This delay may be seen as a Russian victory in a Cold War climate,” said Gianni Pittella, parliament’s socialist leader
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Stefan Fule, the commissioner for enlargement, said the delay had been necessary because Russia was threatening Ukraine not only militarily but with “a full-scale economic and trade war”… (more)
