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To: Navy Patriot
Yeah and Monasanto Nazis and what's not. Dude, EU has never really wanted Ukraine in, contrary to what you Putinists spread all over the place and once the obvious is pointed out, all you can do is change the subject. Now paste a shirtless Putin on a pony.
13 posted on 04/20/2014 11:25:17 AM PDT by Grzegorz 246
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To: Grzegorz 246; Navy Patriot; PGalt; PieterCasparzen; Cronos; goldstategop; dfwgator; Olog-hai; ...
Dude, EU has never really wanted Ukraine in, contrary to what you Putinists spread all over the place and once the obvious is pointed out, all you can do is change the subject.

Sorry, Grzegorz, but that is complete and utter hogwash!

I'll quote from one blog, but there are so much more out there to show that the EU has lusted for Ukraine for years:

Ukraine: EU provocation presages a retreat

"Despite that, with total disdain for the finer feelings of the Russians, the EU has been nothing else but provocative. Its website, going back to 2007 (the earliest we can find), tells us that the EU is seeking an increasingly close relationship with Ukraine, "going beyond mere bilateral co-operation, to gradual economic integration and a deepening of political co-operation".

Ukraine, it goes on to say, is a priority partner country within the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP). The Partnership and Co-operation Agreement (PCA) which entered into force in 1998 and provided a comprehensive and ambitious framework for cooperation between the EU and Ukraine, in all key areas of reform.

At the Paris Summit in September 2008 an agreement was reached to start negotiations on an EU-Ukraine Association Agreement, which was to be the successor agreement to the PCA.

In November 2009, the Cooperation Council adopted the EU-Ukraine Association Agenda. This replaced the former Action Plan, and was installed to prepare for and facilitate the entry into force of the new Agreement. For 2010, a list of priorities for action was jointly agreed by Ukraine and the EU.

So said the EU, the Association Agreement "will significantly deepen Ukraine's political association and economic integration with the EU". As Ukraine became a member of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in May 2008, negotiations on the establishment of a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (DCFTA) were launched, as an integral part of the Association Agreement. Negotiations for this DCFTA continued alongside the Association Agreement talks.

Thus far, no country has ever gone a stage further than this without then becoming a candidate state, preparing to join the EU. This was the route taken by Bulgaria and Romania. The huge scope of the Association Agreement thus attests that it is far more than a simple trade agreement, the pursuit of which has been relentless since well before 2001, as this document illustrates."

For links to original EU documents go to the linked blog page.

Note that when Dr North wrote this post he had already been proven correct vis-à-vis the title of the post, though he was not quite aware of it at the time. For those interested look for the 32nd EU - Russia summit (28 January 2014) and the outcome thereof, which turned out to be potentially very embarrassing for the EU. Luckily for those involved this little incident has been almost completely forgotten/hidden/unknown by most media outlet; most but not all:

EU blamed for mishandling Ukraine trade pact agreement

24 posted on 04/21/2014 8:52:44 AM PDT by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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