International relations between the European Union and Ukraine are shaped through the Ukraine–European Union Association Agreement and the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area. Ukraine is a priority
Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman meets with President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker in Brussels, 24 May 2018.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meets with President of the European Council Donald Tusk in Brussels, 5 June 2019.
Left to right: then Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and President Viktor Yushchenko meeting with European Council President Herman Van Rompuy in 2009
Angela Merkel (Chancellor of Germany) in Conversation with Yulia Tymoshenko (Prime Minister of Ukraine) during the 45th Munich Security Conference (7 February 2009)
Euromaidan
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Euromaidan, or the Maidan Uprising, was a wave of demonstrations and civil unrest in Ukraine, which began on 21 November 2013 with large protests in Maidan Nezalezhnosti in Kyiv. The protests were spa
Ukraine–European Union relations
…2013, where the association agreement was originally planned to be signed. The decision to put off signing the association agreement led to the pro-EU Euromaidan movement. These led to the removal of Yanukovych and his government by parliament after the 2013–2014 Ukrainian revolution in February 2014. The political…
Clockwise from top left: a large European flag is waved across Maidan on 27 November 2013; opposition activist and popular singer Ruslana addresses the crowds on Maidan on 29 November 2013; Euromaidan on European Square on 1 December; plinth of the toppled Lenin statue; crowds direct hose at militsiya; tree decorated with flags and posters.
Protesters in Kyiv, 29 December 2013
Opposition leaders Vitali Klitschko, Arseniy Yatsenyuk and Oleh Tyahnybok, addressing demonstrators, 27 November 2013
Euromaidan protestors on 27 November 2013, Kyiv, Ukraine