VP/HR — Ukraine-EU trade deal

26.11.2013

Question for written answer E-013371-13
to the Commission (Vice-President/High Representative)
Rule 117
Andrew Henry William Brons (NI)

I refer to the Ukrainian cancellation of the long planned EU trade deal with Ukraine.

1. What encouragement or assistance did the EU institutions or agencies or the Member States provide to assist the demonstrations in Kiev and elsewhere against the Ukrainian Government’s move to freeze the trade deal between the EU and Ukraine?

2. What financial or other assistance has the EU and/or Mr Füle offered Ukraine and what assistance has been discussed in this context by the EU?

3. What input in terms of representations has the USA made during the course of these trade deal negotiations and talks over the past six years?

OJ C 239, 23/07/2014