EU launches new drive to end deadlock over Ukraine's Tymoshenko | Reuters:
"European Union envoys will make another attempt this week to break a deadlock over jailed Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko that has jeopardized plans by the EU and Ukraine to sign a landmark trade and cooperation deal.
The envoys, former Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski and Irish politician Pat Cox, will return to Kiev for a session of parliament on Tuesday that will try again to pass a law allowing the 52-year-old Tymoshenko to go to Germany for medical treatment of her chronic back pain.
The case of ex-prime minister Tymoshenko, a fierce opponent of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich who was jailed in 2011 for seven years for abuse of office, has become symbolic for the EU of the "selective justice" that the bloc wants ended before it will sign the accord with Ukraine."
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