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Europa English European External Action Service EEAS
12.06.2025
Pressemitteilung
Russia not interested in stopping or even pausing war - EU Ambassador to Ukraine
— Well, you wanted to start with trade, but I will go back to the fact that we are meeting 10 th of June, when overnight, just the building across the street from the EU Delegation was hit. And a car in our parking lot got debris damage. So the Russian attacks are getting closer and closer to home. And so, just want to say that we are here and support Ukraine and go to the same shelters as you do. And I hope that this Russian terror will hopefully soon be over.—The effect of the autonomous tr...
— Well, you wanted to start with trade, but I will go back to the fact that we are meeting 10 th of June, when overnight, just the building across the street from the EU Delegation was hit. And a car in our parking lot got debris damage. So the Russian attacks are getting closer and closer to home. And so, just want to say that we are here and support Ukraine and go to the same shelters as you do. And I hope that this Russian terror will hopefully soon be over.—The effect of the autonomous trade measures for Ukraine has ended, and now both sides have returned to their trade parameters that are in the DCFTA. Earlier, there was information that Kyiv and Brussels aim to agree on new trade terms or a trade regime as soon as possible, maybe within a couple of months. So, how realistic is this goal, and what might those new terms look like?— As you know, on the 6 th of June, the autonomous trade measures expired. This is something that was known and announced already a year ago. And what we did in the meantime is provide for a seamless adjustment regime. So, the trade didn't collapse because under the bridge solution, while we are negotiating the new trade arrangements, Ukraine can continue exporting tariff-free agricultural products up to the amounts of the quotas. It's 7/12 of the yearly DCFTA quota. And in the meantime, your trade representatives and colleagues from DG Trade are busily working on a new trade regime under Article 29 of the DCFTA, to allow the mutually beneficial...
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