Brussels – European Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighborhood Policy Stefan Fule has said that it is time for Kyiv to start solving the issue of selective justice, in particular in the cases against former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and former Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko.
“The time has come to send some good news in dealing with selective justice. Unless the cases of Yulia Tymoshenko and Yuriy Lutsenko are properly addressed and there is sufficient confidence that there will be no more use of selective justice, we can hardly talk about conditions that are conducive for signing of the Association Agreement,” he said at a European Parliament plenary session in Strasbourg on Wednesday.
According to him, the European Union must “remain committed to a set policy of sequenced engagement with Ukraine.”
“We have established an unprecedented objective and we hope to be able to achieve it. On its side, Ukraine needs to take action on matters that will bring it closer to the European Union and reverse the recent backsliding,” he said.
