The European Parliament’s approval of the one-year extension of trade liberalisation with Ukraine should not be a problem. MEPs on the European Parliament’s Committee on International Trade (INTA) had a rather positive first exchange on this issue on Tuesday 21 March. The European Commission had published its proposal on 23 February(see EUROPE B13128A4).
Sandra Kalniete (EPP, Latvian), rapporteur on the text, even hopes to see her report adopted without amendments. The various groups...