The European Union plans to resume talks with Russia on a new partnership accord at an EU-Russia summit on November 14, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said recently. “I want to underline the EU-Russian partnership talks were never suspended, they were simply delayed,” Kouchner told journalists on October 28, New Europe reported. [more]

The EU and Ukraine on Wednesday (29 October) launched talks on allowing Ukrainian citizens to travel visa-free to the EU, with Kiev hoping to finalise the process by 2012, but Brussels reluctant to commit to a specific date.
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The upcoming Czech EU presidency is considering inviting autocratic Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko to an extraordinary EU summit in the first half of 2009, if the country introduces pro-democratic reforms.

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Ukraine is generally satisfied with the outcome of an EU-Ukraine summit that took place in Paris last month, but is disappointed the final political declaration failed to underline the country’s European identity, Ukraine’s deputy foreign minister, Kostyantyn Yeliseyev, said on Wednesday (22 October). [more]

The signature of the Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact August 1939
In the litany of historical infamy, the Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact of August 1939 looms large. It led to terror and occupation for the countries carved up by Hitler and Stalin. To commemorate the victims of Stalinism and Nazism, the date of the fateful pact - 23 August 1939 - has been deemed a day of remembrance by MEPs. [more]

Balkans model to underpin EU’s ‘Eastern Partnership’(VALENTINA POP)

EU policies applied to the Western Balkans - such as a regional free trade area - are inspiring the "Eastern Partnership" with Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova, Armenia, Azerbaijan and "hopefully" Belarus, participants at a conference organized Wednesday (17 September) by the German Konrad Adenauer think-tank learned.  [more]

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The European Union believes that the Association Agreement with Ukraine “does not close any ways [to EU] but, at the same time, does not open any ways”, President of France Nicholas Sarkozy claimed in Paris Tuesday at a press conference on results of the 12th Ukraine-EU Summit.  [more]

Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko held a telephone conversation today with Secretary General of the Council of Ministers of the EU – EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy Javier Solana, according to the government`s press-office.  [more]

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union brought independence to Ukraine and shattered the Stalinist economy, the EU has become the country`s biggest trading partner, according to Deutsche Welle. [more]