EC labels reports about removal of Tymoshenko's issue from EU-Ukraine agenda as paid advertisement

15:14, 29.04.2013 1 min read

The spokesman for the European Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighborhood Policy Stefan Fule, Peter Stano, has described reports about the alleged removal of the issue of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko from the agenda of the EU-Ukraine relations a "paid advertisement" and "misleading information."

"I have to say that an article that was apparently placed in the Ukrainian newspaper Segodnya is either a paid advertisement or something [like that]. It is full of spin and incorrect assessments, misleading assessment about the EU-Ukraine relations, about the preparation of the Eastern Partnership Summit in Vilnius this November, and about the preparation for the signature of the Association Agreement," he said at the European Commission's press briefing in Brussels on Monday, responding to a question by an Interfax-Ukraine correspondent.