The European Commission's decision to grant market economy status to Ukraine could put it on a par with Norway and Switzerland by 2009 in terms of EU market access, a leading think-tank says.
"Tomorrow I look forward to informing president Yushchenko of our intention to grant market economy status to Ukraine", commission president Jose Manuel Barroso stated on Wednesday (30 November), before flying out to an EU summit in Kiev on Thursday.
The move paves the way for Ukrainian Wor...
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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.