07/02/2017 (Agence Europe) – Visiting Brussels on Monday 6 February, Ukraine's deputy prime minister, Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze, was given assurances by European Commissioner for Trade Cecilia Malmström that the Commission would push the European Parliament to support its proposal to grant additional (but temporary) autonomous trade preferences to Ukraine "to the extent proposed by the European Commission, without any changes", Klympush-Tsintsadze's press office stated. The Ukrainian deputy prime minister also met the European Parliament's rapporteur on this issue, Jarosław Wałęsa (EPP, Poland). In September 2016, the Commission proposed offering new market openings for certain Ukrainian agricultural and industrial products, in addition to what is already offered as part of the EU-Ukraine free trade area that has been in force since 1 January 2016 (see EUROPE 11636). (EH)