Legal quibble delays preparations for EU-Ukraine pact

The EU put off an internal decision on the Ukraine trade treaty over a technicality, amid a “nervous” atmosphere on the fate of the accord, according to EUObserver.

While EU diplomats in Brussels had agreed on the 11 June 2014 to adopt a common decision to sign the text, paving the way for a signature ceremony by leaders at an EU summit on 27 June, a verdict from the European Court of Justice (ECJ) on the same day about a similar pact between the EU and the Philippines brought the need of further clarification.

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: Ukraine: Rebels hold monitors, helicopter shot down http://www.europeansources.info/record/ukraine-rebels-hold-monitors-helicopter-shot-down-uncertainty-on-date-of-eu-ukraine-treaty-signature/

ESO: Background information: EU / IMF financial support to Ukraine http://www.europeansources.info/record/press-release-council-approves-financial-support-and-trade-measures-for-ukraine-imf-approves-17bn-ukraine-bailout-package/

EUObserver, 08.06.14: Poroshenko: 'My pen is in my hands' to sign EU pact http://euobserver.com/foreign/124525

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