DCFTA : Commission offers Russia “practical” solutions

Ukraine, Russia and the EU might soon move the technical talks on the EU-Ukraine free trade agreement, known as a deep and comprehensive free trade agreement (DCFTA), back to political level, the European Commission said, on 21 April. Without going into detail, the EU executive said that during over ten hours of discussions on 20-21 April in Brussels, it offered Moscow “practical” solutions to “some” of its concerns. It noted at the same time, again without providing further details, that…