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Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Johannes Hahn: Ukraine Remains a Top Priority for EU
The decisions which are taken today on future relations between the EU and Ukraine will impact above all on the rising generation, Commissioner for European … Read more...
EU Official: “99% Certainty” Georgia will Get Visa Liberation in 2016
“It can be said with almost 99 percent certainty that a visa-free regime will be introduced for Georgia next year,” believes Andrejs Mamikins, the European … Read more...
Visa Liberalisation: Mogherini Hopes for “Good News” for Georgia
European Union (EU) top official Federica Mogherini hopes Georgia will soon receive "good news” about its visa liberalisation ambitions. Mogherini, the EU High … Read more...
EU Top Official: “Georgia Fulfilled Many Key Obligations to Get Visa Liberalisation”
Georgia has fulfilled many significant obligations and should keep following the same path in order to get positive recommendation at the end of the year in terms of … Read more...
Klimkin: Low Salaries of Ukrainians, Uncontrolled Border Sections won’t Influence Visa Regime with the EU
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin has said that the fact that Ukraine does not control sections of the Ukrainian-Russian border and the low salaries of Ukrainian … Read more...
Ukraine Finally Passes Anti-Bias Law, a Prerequisite for Visa-Free Travel to EU
In its third attempt in a week, Ukraine’s parliament passed amendments to the Labor Code on Nov. 12 that will end lingering Soviet-era workplace discrimination over … Read more...
Gay Rights Vote Undermines EU-Ukraine Visa Deal
Ukrainian MPs have voted down a gay rights law in a decision likely to kill chances of EU visa-free travel by the end of the year. Just 117 out of the 450 members of … Read more...
No Lifting of the Visa Barrier for Ukrainians, Says Juncker
In a much anticipated State of the Union speech, Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker appealed for the preservation of the traditional values of solidarity on which … Read more...
Lithuanian President Meets Georgian PM, Speaks of ‘Internal Obstacles on Georgia’s Path to Europe’
At a meeting with the Georgian PM Irakli Garibashvili in Vilnius on November 5, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė said that problems with human rights, media … Read more...
Agreements Make it Easier to Move Across Moldova-Ukraine Border
Two new cross border cooperation agreements were signed yesterday between Moldova and Ukraine that will make it faster and easier to move across their joint border. The … Read more...
