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With negotiations on an Association agreement and DCFTA, set to be finalised within the next year, the EU Ukraine Business Council is organising a Round Table discussion to assist in raising awareness and so doing, help towards a smoother implementation of provisions of future agreements.

One of Poland’s key aims during its six-month presidency of the EU next year is to get EU Association Agreement for Ukraine.

Ukrainian leader Viktor Yanukovych will score a diplomatic victory on visa-free travel at a summit in Brussels on Monday (22 November). But his opponents say he is taking the country backwards in terms of democracy and good governance.

Kiev to be given a list of conditions that Ukraine must meet before visas can be lifted. Ukraine hopes that its summit with the EU next week will be remembered as the beginning of a process of visa liberalisation for Ukrainians.

The European Union is preparing to offer Ukraine an Action Plan on visa-free travel in November

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – France wants to delay a decision on allowing Romania and Bulgaria to join Europe's border-free Schengen zone at least until summer 2011 and is pressing for more results in the fight against corruption and a better surveillance of the border with Moldova.

Poland and Sweden promise official Kyiv good news during the EU – Ukraine Summit scheduled for November 22. President of Ukraine met with the Ministers of Foreign Affairs: Poland - Radoslaw Sikorski and Sweden - Carl Bildt.

Cyprus supports the adoption of the Action Plan on implementation of visa-free regime for short visits of Ukrainian citizens to the EU. The president of the House of Representatives (parliament) of the Republic of Cyprus Marios Karoyan said about it.

From November 1, 2010 visa simplifications will be waiting for residents of Donetsk and Lugansk regions, wishing to visit France.

These persons falsified documents to obtain Schengen visas.