Das Assoziierungsabkommen zwischen der EU und der Ukraine – Weichensteller auf dem Weg in die EU?
Journal: Kritische Vierteljahresschrift für Gesetzgebung und Rechtswissenschaft
Year: 2014

The announcement by the Ukrainian government that it does not intend to sign the Agreement on Association and Free Trade with the European Union (EU) for the moment triggered a political crisis in the former Soviet Republic at the end of 2013. In early 2014 this culminated in President Victor Janukovych being deposed and the peninsula and Autonomous Republic of the Crimea splitting away and then becoming a part of the Russian Federation on 18.3.2014. Since then, comparable endeavours have also b