Voices of Ukraine

25.03.2014 15:20

Europe rebutted the fears of the Ukrainian entrepreneurs

A roundtable on “The trade with the EU in terms of deepening and all-embracing free-trade zone (FTZ+)” was held today in Kyiv. The British ambassador to Ukraine, Simon Smith, the government plenipotentiary of Ukraine on Eurointegration, Valery Pyatnitskiy, and the director of the British consulting company CTA, Mark Haylier, participated in it.

They paid special attention to breaking the most popular myths about the possible negative consequences of signing an agreement on the free-trade zone (FZT) with the EU for Ukrainian business. Here are their rebuttals to these concerns. 

Myth 1. The agreement on the free-trade zone with the EU may limit the possibility of [Ukraine] trading with other countries.

The signing of the agreement will have no impact on the agreements signed by Ukraine earlier with other countries. The document says nothing about harmonization of the state’s trade…

Wednesday, March, 26, 2014, 18:50

The Ministry of Revenue reports that the volume of goods imported into Ukraine decreased by 15% in volume and in monetary terms by 24%. The minister’s deputy and a supervisor of the Customs Service, Vitaly Naumenko, announced this, UNIAN reports.

Naumenko states that, “budget receipts have been rising due to contributions made by the Customs Service. 6.3 billion UAH was transferred for March and this exceeds the figures from January and February. We are planning to reach 7.7 billion UAH as of this year end that will be 71% of the target of the State budget’s total fund,” Naumenko said.

According to data from a survey conducted by SOCIS, KIIS, Rating, and Rozumkov Centre, 65.8% of Ukrainians favor the holding of early parliamentary elections.

65.8% of respondents are for early parliamentary elections, 17.5 % – against it, 16.7 % – are undecided.

According to data from a survey conducted by SOCIS, KIIS, Rating, and Rozumkov Centre, Petro Poroshenko clearly leads in the presidential rating with more than twice as high a percentage as Vitali Klitschko and Yulia Tymoshenko.

According to reports, Ukrainians currently show very high level of electoral interest, with about 84 % of voters willing to participate in elections.