EU-Ukraine Trade Relations

EU is trying to improve the interrelationship with Ukraine since 1994." Ukraine and the EU started to negotiatate on an Association agreement in 2009. However, it was not enough to make closer ties between EU and Ukraine. The goals of the article are to describe all aspects of development, affecting the deepening of the integration process and thus the trade between Ukraine and the EU. Key results article is that the EU offered Ukraine to become part of the Association Agreement in the context of deep and comprehensive free trade area (DCFTA). Based on these facts DCFTA was the main core of negotiation process between EU and Ukraine. Human rights issue was one of the most important conditions in ratification of this trade agreement. Ukraine tried to prepare the DCFTA according to the conditions of modernizing and adjusting economy and trade based on European standards. The process of ratification of Association Agreement was rejected by Victor Yanukovych in 2013. Subsequently thousands of people protested in Maiden movement and it caused the start of civil war and Russian annexation of Crimea. Based on these events EU deferred the implementation of the DCFTA from September 2014 to January 2016.