EU leaders set for tough table-talk with Ukraine's Yanukovich


  • World
  • Friday, 29 Nov 2013

A man is seen with EU and Ukrainian flags on his cap during a meeting to support EU integration in Kiev, November 27, 2013. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko

VILNIUS (Reuters) - The European Union told Ukraine it was risking its economic future by rejecting a free-trade deal in favour of closer ties with Russia, hours before a likely frosty encounter on Thursday evening between EU leaders and President Viktor Yanukovich.

Yanukovich flew into the Lithuanian capital Vilnius in time for a dinner in honour of the Eastern Partnership, the EU's four-year-old outreach programme for former Soviet republics, including Ukraine.

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