EU Observer: Ukraine and Cuba on agenda this week

By EU Observer.

Published Feb. 10, 2014 at 9:34 am

A protester walks past a man painting the scene near barricades on Grushevsky street in Kiev on February 9, 2014. An estimated 70,000 pro-Western Ukrainians thronged the heart of Kiev on February 9 vowing never to give up their drive to oust President Viktor Yanukovych for his alliance with old master Russia. Wearing blue and yellow ribbons -- the colours of both Ukraine and the European Union -- the crowd received a religious blessing before opposition leaders took to a podium on Independence Square in a bid to ratchet up pressure on Yanukovych to appoint a new pro-Western government. AFP PHOTO/ GENYA SAVILOV

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BRUSSELS - Ukraine will top the agenda when EU foreign ministers meet in Brussels on Monday (10 February), with sanctions likely to be discussed informally, but no decision taken.

The discussion comes after leaked phone calls highlighted the difference between the EU and US approach to the crisis: In one call, a high-ranking EU diplomat voiced irritation that the US is portraying Europe as weak in its response.

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