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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9848

26 February 2009
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/ukraine
Kiev calls for European aid to rescue its economy - Eastern Partnership is not alternative to joining EU

Brussels, 25/02/2009 (Agence Europe) - The Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Minister, Boris Tarasyuk, has called on the EU rapidly to adopt financial and economic support measures in favour of Ukraine which, he said, has been "considerably" affected by the current crisis, to the point that the possibility that country could go bankrupt has been raised in certain quarters. "We are in need of a stabilisation package" and a loan, Mr Tarasyuk told the European Parliament in Brussels on 25 February,...

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