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Bilateral deal-making involving European governments.

last update: May 2012
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Piatnytsky: FTA agreement with EU larger and deeper than similar agreement with CIS
7-Jan-2012    
Government Commissioner for Ukraine's European Integration Valeriy Piatnytsky has said that the association agreement between Ukraine and the EU in terms of creating a deep and comprehensive free trade area (FTA) is larger and deeper than a similar agreement with the CIS countries.
Suspending Customs Union with EU
7-Jan-2012    
I will disclose details of a private meeting between Turkish and EU officials to shed some light on what has been a rather sour note between Ankara and Brussels for more than a decade now. The gathering took place amid a eurozone sovereign debt crisis and tumultuous Arab revolutions, both of which have put Turkey's growing trade under considerable strain.
Ukraine, Turkey to start talks on creation of free trade area
23-Dec-2011     Kyiv Post
Kyiv and Ankara will begin talks on the creation of a free trade area (FTA), Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said at a press conference in Ankara on Thursday.
EU stalls Ukraine trade deal over Tymoshenko treatment
18-Dec-2011    
Although an EU-Ukraine summit is due to open on Monday, plans for an association agreement to be signed will not go ahead due to tensions over the jailing of opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko, EU diplomats have said.
Finland advocates free trade agreement between Russia and EU countries
16-Dec-2011     Helsingin Sanomat
Russia’s accession into the World Trade Organisation next summer will bring Finnish export companies annual savings worth up to hundreds of millions of euros. However, Finland has its sights already set on the next target: the establishment of a free trade zone between Russia and the European Union.
Tensions grow ahead of EU-Ukraine summit
15-Dec-2011     Euractiv.com
Days before a crunch EU-Ukraine summit on 19 December, Kyiv is under increased pressure as Brussels urges its leaders to release political prisoners and Russia moves to take control of its gas pipeline network, diplomats told EurActiv.
MOIT: Russia considers FTA with Vietnam a breakthrough in Asean
14-Dec-2011     VietnamNet
Vietnam has agreed to kick off the negotiation for FTA with the Customs Union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan in 2012
EU-Georgia free trade agreement takes step closer to reality
13-Dec-2011     The Messenger
The EU and Georgia have launched negotiations on a "deep and comprehensive" free trade agreement
EU set to launch free trade zone talks with Moldova
8-Dec-2011    
The European Union has officially announced that it is preparing to start negotiations to form a free trade zone with Moldova and Georgia, the Moldovan Foreign Affairs and European Integration Ministry said in a press release, received by Interfax on Tuesday.
Montenegro signs FTA with Ukraine, expects to join WTO soon
23-Nov-2011    
Montenegro’s Economy Minister Vladimir Kavarić and his Ukrainian counterpart Andrii Klyuyev signed today in Kyiv the free trade agreement between the two states, which will enable Montenegro to resume its accession negotiations with the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and join the organisation in the near future.