A handful of EU countries are keen to sign an EU pact with Ukraine in autumn despite its erosion of democratic standards.
Sources told EUobserver the Czech republic, Lithuania, Poland and Slovakia want to sign the trade and political association treaty at a summit of Eastern Partnership countries to be held in Vilnius in autumn under Lithuania's EU presidency.
"We don't see it [the treaty] as a present for the Ukrainian government, but more as a kind of opening up of perspective...
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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.