Ukraine Stuns EU By Putting Association Deal On Ice Eurasia Review:
"Kyiv has decided to put its move for closer integration with the EU on hold in favour of talks to revive economic relations with Russia, one week before the country was expected to sign a landmark association agreement with the 28-country bloc in Vilnius.
EU diplomats made no secret of the fact that they were flabbergasted by developments in Kyiv today (21 November).
First, the Ukrainian parliament failed to pass laws that would allow jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko to go to Germany for medical treatment. Her release was seen as a sine qua non condition for the signature of the association agreement (AA) in Vilnius.
Neither the Party of the Regions President Viktor Yanukovich, also the country’s president, and the Communist Party did not cast votes, the six draft laws failed to gather the required 226 votes to pass."
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