BRUSSELS –
The association agreement between the European Union and Ukraine is at midnight fully entered into force. That was delayed because of the no-vote of april of last year in the referendum in the Netherlands.
Many of the components of the in June 2014, agreement was already provisionally in force since september 2014, and the vrijhandelsdeel since January last year. From 1 september is also the cooperation in the area of security, justice, immigration, taxes and education is enhanced.
The netherlands was the last EU country that the agreement is ratified. Only after the EU leaders in december at the insistence of prime-minister Mark Rutte in a legally binding annex imaged that the convention Ukraine does not entitle you to membership of the EU was the Netherlands agree. Also the fact that EU countries are not subject to additional security guarantees, or financial contributions. In this way, according to the government the objections of the no-voters are met.