EU Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighborhood Policy, Stefan Fule, said that the Customs Union established by Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan , undermines the sovereignty of individual countries. He expressed this opinion on April 2 at the joint press conference with Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Vladimir Groisman and head of the European Committee of Regions, Ramón Luis Valcárcel jail.
" The Customs Union undermines the sovereignty and is based on economic and trade relations based on subsidies, controlled by "Gazprom" and the Kremlin . Political cooperation is based on the requirements of Moscow. And events in the Crimea, and the illegal annexation referendum, which I greatly regret, isone more proof," said Fule .
The Commissioner also stressed that the Association Agreement by the European Union is intended to strengthen the sovereignty of Ukraine, and to facilitate the necessary economic and political reforms. -02D-
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