EU-Ukraine relations risk hitting a fresh bump over visas, with Kiev blaming delays in a new travel deal on anti-immigration politics in the west and Brussels saying the "technical" issues will soon be resolved.
Ukraine had expected to seal a visa facilitation package for post-January 2007 travel to the EU in Helsinki on 27 October, joining Russia in a scheme to avoid EU visa price hikes from €35 to €60 per person next year.
But France, Germany, Austria, Poland, Slovakia and Hun...
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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.