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The EU mission faces Ukrainian and Russian business interests worth hundreds of millions of dollars a year (Photo: European Commission)

Ukraine helps fuel frozen conflict on EU doorstep

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 Affairs Editor. He has been writing about foreign and security affairs for EUobserver since 2005. He is Polish but grew up in the UK. He has also written for The Guardian, The Telegraph, and The Times of London.

The EU mission faces Ukrainian and Russian business interests worth hundreds of millions of dollars a year (Photo: European Commission)

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's Foreign Affairs Editor. He has been writing about foreign and security affairs for EUobserver since 2005. He is Polish but grew up in the UK. He has also written for The Guardian, The Telegraph, and The Times of London.

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