The Cox-Kwasniewski commission - composed of former EU parliament chief Patrick Cox and former Polish president Alexander Kwasniewski - is in Kyiv on 26-28 May to check on progress in Ukraine's bid to meet EU reform demands.
If it does its homework on EU benchmarks, the Union aims to sign an Association Agreement and free trade pact with Ukraine at a summit in Vilnius in November.
In the meantime, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has sought to stress Ukraine’s geopolitical ...
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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.