Ukraine's ex-economics minister Bohdan Danylyshyn said he is in Brussels drafting an association accord between Ukraine and the European Union.
The European Endowment for Democracy (EED) has helped the only independent and English-language newspaper in the Ukraine, the Kyiv Post keep publishing, despite government attempts to close it down.
President of the European Investment Bank (EIB) Werner Hoyer has announced the suspension of the bank's activity in Ukraine.
Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski claims that the Thursday meeting with Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych will be held in the format of the Weimar triangle
The European Union is calling an extraordinary meeting of foreign ministers to decide the 28-nation bloc's reaction including possible sanctions to the recent escalation of violence in Ukraine.
Moscow - The EU-Ukraine Association Agreement poses no threat to Russia's interests, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton said.
Germany is revising its foreign policies inside Europe and will try to persuade the Poles and other Eastern-European neighbors to change their opinion on "a common European house," mainly initiating reformatting of the Eastern Partnership, proposing to include Russian and Asia into it, German political scientist, journalist and expert Alexander Rahr has said.
Brussels - EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton has said that the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement is "not the end, and there are many things that could happen in the future."
Andriy Sadovyy, mayor of the westward-leaning city of Lviv, refused to enforce the central government's short-lived anti-protest laws. But he believes in a united Ukraine.
Kyiv has not received official loan offers from the European Union, Ukraine's acting Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara has said.
EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission Catherine Ashton has said she is deeply concerned about the events in Ukraine and has urged Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych to bring the adopted legislative amendments in line with the country's international commitments.
European Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighborhood Policy Stefan Fule has said that the legislative amendments adopted by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on January 16 contradict the European aspirations of Ukrainians.
BRUSSELS, Jan 16 (Reuters) - The European Union has cancelled a traditional dinner with President Vladimir Putin at an EU-Russia summit in Brussels later this month to show there is no "business as usual" after a tug-of-war with Moscow over Ukraine.
Putin will visit Brussels on Jan. 28 for his twice-yearly summit with the EU's top officials, despite relations being under strain. The summit is usually over two days but will be over in one this time, without the dinner on the night before.
Ukraine will provide material and technical resources and services for strategic air transportation as part of an EU military training mission to Mali.
Brussels – Brussels is currently not considering the possibility of applying sanctions against Ukrainian officials, according to Maja Kocijancic, the spokesperson for EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Vice-President of the European Commission Catherine Ashton.
Brussels – Brussels will continue the dialog with Kyiv on the preparations for the signing of the Association Agreement as soon as the Ukrainian authorities show clear commitment to do this.
The date for the next Ukraine-EU summit has not yet been agreed, and therefore preparations for the events are not being conducted, the EU Delegation to Ukraine reported on Monday.
Since negotiations between the EU and Ukraine collapsed in November, criticism in France about the way the talks were handled is starting to get louder, EurActiv France reports.
Ukrainian First Deputy Prime Minister Serhiy Arbuzov has said he expects that Ukraine and the EU will sign an association agreement this year.
Brussels – A delegation of the European Parliament will visit Ukraine on Jan. 28-30.