Anger in Ukraine because of the postponement of the application of trade agreement with the European Union

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Anger in Ukraine because of the postponement of the application of trade agreement with the European Union

 

Ukrainian President faces Petro Poroshenko severe criticism from a number of the earliest supporters Radwkhh due to pressure Russian and postponed the application of trade agreement with the European Union, which was scheduled to ratify it on Tuesday.

 

He warned many of them that the decision to postpone the orientation former Soviet republic economically toward the West that could lead to a repeat of the protests that led to the ouster of former Kremlin-backed Viktor Yanukovych after he refused a similar deal.

 

He wrote Sviatoslav Aulinik Deputy Ruler of Dnepropetrovsk region on his Facebook, "I do not know what to say .. the last time it happened, I got the demonstrations."

 

Danilo gave Lubkivsky deputy foreign minister resigned in protest, and said that Poroshenko sends "the wrong indicators of all: the aggressor (Russia), and our allies, and most importantly, the citizens of Ukraine."

 

But most analysts agree that Russia's threat to impose very harsh restrictions on trade with Ukraine that could sink the economy and lead to a deterioration larger, did not leave the front of pro-Western president a lot of options.

 

The Free Trade Agreement, which will not apply until 2016, part of a broader partnership agreement is expected to be ratified by parliaments and the European Ukrainian them Tuesday, after years of negotiations, which came close in a lot of times to collapse.

 

And tried to Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly blasting those negotiations, fearing that he graduated from throughout Russia, Ukraine and destroy his dream of setting up a block after the Soviet Union compete with the European Union and NATO. Following the rejection of Yanukovych's agreement with the European Union last November, a few days ago from preventable Muftrdhan feet Putin to help Ukraine worth 15 billion dollars, and reduce the price of Russian gas sold to them.

 

Recently Russia has warned of dammed impervious between them and most of the goods when it enters the Ukrainian part of the sources Trade Agreement entered into force in November / November

 

It seems that the threat was the decisive factor in the decision to apply for Ukraine from the European Union Friday to postpone the Free Trade Agreement, which was approved by the Union.

 

Hurried Russian Economy Minister Alexei Ulyukayev to announce that Moscow now undertake "not to adopt protectionist measures state" until the end of 2015.

 

However, the Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Monday that Russia would monitor the situation closely to ensure the "non-application of any of the hidden rules of free trade."

 

Analysts believe that Russia has always had the final word in the matter of trade restrictions because the state could have been imposed was Stodja Ukraine strongly and immediately.

 

A quarter of Ukraine's exports go to the east, as you go direct proportion to the 28 European Union countries.

 

But Ukraine will not feel the benefits of free trade with Europe by at least a decade because the agreement specifies "a transitional period of a maximum of ten years."

 

Ukraine also need to agree to end its program of agricultural subsidies and removes barriers on imports that help steel workers in the troubled eastern Ukraine.

 

Poroshenko Putin warned last week that the transition from the Ukraine to work under the standards of the European trade will cost the country 165 billion euros, a figure which is much higher than the GDP achieved by Ukraine in 2013.

 

The European Union tried to alleviate such a strike so the cancellation of most tariffs and provide economic aid package worth 1.6 billion euros to Kiev.

 

Nonetheless, Brussels acknowledged that ease tariffs on exporters will not provide Ukrainians only 500 million euros in the year.

 

And led the trade restrictions imposed by Russia Ltd. on some food commodities Ukrainian exports to shrink by one-third of these in the first six months, a loss of up to 775 million euros, at least during the year.

 

He said European Commission Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis site Ivropesca Ukrainian Pravda news that "the development of the Ukrainian economy is currently difficult as the strikes against Russian trade sanctions for some sectors such as engineering would be great so that the country can not be tolerated."