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EU calls on Ukraine to accelerate privatisation drive amid fears over backtracking
Ukraine's Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal (left) speaks next to European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell (centre) and European Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Oliver Varhelyi during a joint news conference following an EU-Ukraine Association Council at the European Council headquarters in Brussels
THE European Union called on Ukraine to accelerate economic and judicial reforms required under the 2014 EU Association Agreement at a meeting on Thursday.
EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell said “Ukraine’s economic integration and regulatory approximation with the European Union” remained a priority for Brussels.
There have been concerns that authorities in Kiev are backtracking on demands in the Association Agreement, which are also conditions of loans made to the country by the International Monetary Fund, for the privatisation of land and opening the country’s farming sector to European agribusiness.
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