This looks suspiciously like a move towards the trilateral agreement over Ukraine whose rejection by the EU led to the current crisis

Reuters

11th September, 2014

BRUSSELS, Sept 11 (Reuters) – The EU will offer Russia more time to adjust to a European trade pact with Ukraine, diplomats say, moving to ease bilateral tensions over an accord at the centre of the crisis in Ukraine as a ceasefire there takes hold.

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RIAN

11th September, 2014

MOSCOW, September 11 (RIA Novosti) – France is interested in stabilizing the situation in Ukraineand the Middle East and stands ready to work together with Russia to this end, Thierry Mariani, a member of the French National Assembly and a member of the French delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, said Thursday.

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First, they tried to sign the AA with the legal government, then they tried to sign it with the illegal government which they had installed via a coup d’etat. Now they are trying to sign it with a government which has just lost a war against part of its own population, whose neo-nazi front line troops have sworn to overthrow it, whose national army has disintegrated and which will preside over a de facto partition of the the country if it continues to reject a negotiated peace settlement. All this so that the respective parties can save some face and continue to maintain the completely false story they have been putting out through their completely controlled media. The EU cannot get much lower than this and if it continues to exhibit this kind of political ineptitude, fruit of a political class completely in tow to Anglo-American interests, it will collapse. The problem in Europe is not so much the economy or the common currency but the crisis in direction and in the absence of an independent political leadership.

Euroactiv

4th September, 2014

The European Parliament and Ukraine will ratify the country’s Association Agreement (AA) simultaneously, during the 15-18 September session, EurActiv has learned. The signing of the AA led to the conflict currently under way between Ukraine and Russia.

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M.K.Bhadrakumar

Indian Punchline

17th August, 2014

Open dissent erupted at the European Union foreign ministers’ meeting on Friday regarding sanctions against Russia. In an extraordinary outburst, Hungary’s prime minister ridiculed, here, that the Europeans are shooting at their own feet. Earlier, Slovakia and Czech Republic also sought a rethink on the sanctions policy. That leaves Poland, Lithuania and Romania as the odd ‘hawks’ in ‘New Europe’ allied with Washington. 

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 Germany, Slovakia, Greece, Czech Republic Urge End To Russian Sanctions

Zero Hedge

16th August, 2014

Last week Germany reported that in the second quarter, its GDP declined by 0.2%, worse than Wall Street consensus. This happened a few shorts days after Italy reported a second consecutive decline in its own GDP, becoming the first Europen country to enter a triple-dip recession. What’s worse, Europe’s slowdown took place before the brunt of Russian sanctions hit. Surely in the third quarter the GDP of Germany, a nation whose exports accounts for 41% of GDP, will be even worse, with whisper numbers of -1% being thrown casually around, but one thing is certain: Europe is about to enter its third recession since the Lehman collapse just as we forecast at the end of 2013, a “triple-dip” which may become an outright depression unless Draghi injects a few trillion in credit money (which will do nothing but delay the inevitable and make it that much worse once the can can no longer be kicked), and unless normal trade ties with Russia are restored.

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