The leader of the Dutch Christian-Democrats party CDA is slowly moving away from the traditional pro-EU message of its European political family, the European People’s Party (EPP). Christian-Democrat MP, Sybrand van Haersma Buma, said on Feb. 26 at the first nationally televised debate ahead of March 15 general elections that he would “throw” the ratification bill of the EU-Ukraine association agreement “in the bin” if he became prime minister.
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EUobserver: Dutch election – Christian Democrat would bin Ukraine treaty
Ukrainian students hold EU flags during a rally on European Square in Kyiv on April 5. The demonstrators organized a human chain from the Dutch embassy to European Square in Kyiv to call on the people of the Netherlands to support Ukraine ahead of a referendum on an association agreement of the EU with Ukraine.
