EU Commissioner for Enlargement Štefan Füle visits Ukraine on Tuesday and Wednesday.
He will head a sizeable delegation, including also Commissioner for Financial Programming and Budget Janusz Lewandowski and high-level representatives of various Directorates General of the Commission.
As announced by the President of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, after last week´s signature of the political provisions of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement, Commissioner Füle will travel to Kiev to work with the Ukrainian authorities on some of the specific elements that the EU is now developing with them and on a number of issues regarding the implementation of the Association Agreement.
“We will be talking about a number of reforms that are necessary both in the area of democratic institutions and the economy. We will start work on a roadmap for these reforms in different fields,” Commissioner Füle said. He stressed that it would also be important to continue the Dialogue with Verkhovna Rada and Civil Society both of whom play a significant role in advancing reforms.
The possibility to accelerate the process of visa liberalisation and issues related to decentralisation and support of the regions should also be among the topics for discussions between the Ukrainian authorities and the high-level delegation from the European Commission.
