June 2017 will mark the three-year anniversary of the association agreement between the European Union and Ukraine, and while the Eastern European state has taken major steps towards European integration, its progress has been slow.
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Young Ukrainians with their faces painted with the European Union and Ukrainian flags march from Taras Shevchenko Park to European Square in Kyiv on Nov. 24, 2013. Tens of thousands of Ukrainians turned out for the rally on the square to urge the then-President Viktor Yanukovych to reverse his government’s decision to suspend work on signing Ukraine’s political and economic Association Agreement with the European Union.