Batkivschyna Party leader Yulia Tymoshenko has thanked European leaders for supporting the Ukrainian opposition and civil society, the party's press service reported on Thursday.
Tymoshenko met with President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy at the summit of the European People’s Party in Brussels, Belgium, the press service said.
"It is very important to pay attention to what is happening in Ukraine and between Ukraine and the European Union. These are interrelated processes," the press service quoted Van Rompuy as saying.
He supported the readiness of Tymoshenko as the leader of the largest opposition party in Ukraine to develop constructive cooperation with European institutions for the sake of successfully completing the negotiation process and signing the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement in 2011.
Tymoshenko, in turn, thanked him for his support and solidarity.
"A European-style Ukraine is more important than its government. I appreciate the fact that European leaders understand this and support cooperation with representatives of the opposition and civil society," she said.
Van Rompuy thanked Tymoshenko for her efforts in the sphere of European integration and expressed confidence that cooperation would continue, in particular, during a meeting between Tymoshenko and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso during his visit to Ukraine in April 2011.
