The Evolution of the EU's Foreign Trade Policy and the Potential EU-USA Trade Deal; IS the EU Moving in the Right Direction?
Journal: Repository Faculty of Law University of Zagreb
Year: 2018

It is spring 2014, the former Ukrainian president Yanukovych has fled his country after the Maidan revolution. Russian troops are occupying the geopolitically strategic territory of Crimea. Public unrest and separatist protests are unfolding in Eastern and Southern Ukraine. British Foreign Secretary William Hague calls the situation the biggest crisis facing Europe in the 21st century.1 And there at the heart of the Maidan Revolution was a trade pact. For a year, President Viktor Yanukovych insi