According to Deutsche Welle, the situation surrounding the ratification of the Association Agreement between the EU and Ukraine is becoming increasingly complicated.
In a referendum that took place in April 2016, more than 60 percent of voters voted against the ratification of agreement between Brussels and Kiev. At that time, Rutte stated that it's necessary to find a legal compromise. However, recently he said that his country probably won't ratify the document at all.
"If the Netherlands won't indeed ratify the document at the state level, there's a possibly they'll also refuse to support it in the EU Council, which is supposed to approve the final version of the agreement at the EU level," the media source wrote.
In 2014, the European Union signed an agreement with Ukraine to deepen political association and economic integration. Ukraine had to implement a series of political and economic reforms to gain free-trade access to the EU market.
Kiev also awaits the introduction of visa-free travel for its citizens; a final decision will be reached regarding this issue in the near future.
"The introduction of visa-free regime will ensure that Poland and other Eastern European countries will get extremely cheap labor from Ukraine," Russian economist Michail Delyagin told Life.ru. "There are no jobs in Ukraine, in principle, at least those which pay decent wages. And Poland still has farms and small businesses, so the Poles need workers ready to work their butts off for nothing."
