The Dutch prime minister, Mark Rutte, announced on Monday 31 October that he could obtain the support of the Dutch parliament for finding a way to make it possible to allow ratification of the association agreement between the EU and Ukraine. To this effect he was planning to work on a legally binding statement, he said, to be annexed to the agreement that the Dutch parliament, along with the Netherlands' European partners, would be asked to endorse by 15 December, just before the...