Tag: Vilnius summit

Moscow’s efforts to push Ukraine away from the EU have only led to growing the number of supporters for Kyiv's integration. The only thing left is the Ukrainian government to roll up its sleeves and make sure the Association Agreement is signed at the Vilnius summit, writes Yuriy Kochevenko.

Ukraine has strongly rebutted allegations that one of its little-known ports had been used for massive arms shipments to Syria. Analysts source the claims to Russia, which may be aiming to repeat the ‘Kolchuga affair’ that successfully isolated Ukraine from the West in 2002.

US Secretary of State John Kerry will discuss Syria, Egypt and Israeli-Palestinian peace talks with European officials on a weekend trip to Vilnius, Paris and London, where he will see Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, the State Department said yesterday (5 September).

Russia's bid to bloc Ukraine's ambitions to move closer to the European Union will be on the agenda of an informal meeting of EU foreign affairs ministers on 6-7 September in Vilnius, diplomats have told EurActiv.

Time is short for Kyiv to make tangible reforms ahead of the November Vilnius summit, and in the meantime the EU-Ukraine relationship is “slowly running out of runway”, a high European Commission official told the European Parliament yesterday (5 June).

Lithuania, the tiny Baltic country that will take over the rotating EU presidency on 1 July, will have to deal with extremely heavy dossiers, such as the adoption of the 70 items of legislation needed to implement the EU budget for the next seven years, as well as preparation for the Eastern Partnership summit, diplomats told EurActiv.