Brussels, 05/10/2011 (Agence Europe) - Karel De Gucht has been strenuously defending the cause of the association agreement between the EU and the countries of the Eastern Partnership, as a vector for economic integration between the two regions. The European trade commissioner wants the future bilateral agreement for a free-trade zone with Ukraine to be a model for all of the Union's neighbour countries to the East.
In De Gucht's view, the future association agreement between the EU and...