Ukrainian cooperation with the breakaway Moldovan province of Transniestria risks damaging EU policy in Moldova, with the EU's new Ukraine-Moldova border mission having little impact so far.
Kiev has agreed to help Brussels press for Moldovan reunification by refusing to take Transniestrian steel, textile and food exports after 25 January unless they carry official Moldovan customs stamps.
But reports from the EU's new Moldova-Ukraine border mission indicate that Ukraine is not l...
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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.