Western Ukraine is found to be generally more enthusiastic about EU membership than Eastern Ukraine. Ukraine, on the other hand, wants to increase its exports by benefiting from free trade with the European Union while attracting desirable external investments, as well as establishing closer ties with a sociopolitical entity to which many Ukrainians feel strong cultural connection. On the one hand, the European Union wants to ensure that its imports of grain and natural gas from Ukraine, as well as its exports of goods to Ukraine, are not threatened by instability in the region, believing that instability could eventually be reduced through sociopolitical and economic reforms in Ukraine. The agreement comes after more than two decades in which both parties sought to establish closer ties with each other. The agreement commits both parties to promote a gradual convergence toward the EU's Common Security and Defence Policy and European Defence Agency policies. The EU agrees to provide Ukraine with political and financial support, access to research and knowledge, and preferential access to EU markets. Ukraine commits to gradually conform to EU technical and consumer standards. The agreement commits Ukraine to economic, judicial and financial reforms to converge its policies and legislation to those of the European Union. The agreement furthermore establishes a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area between the parties. The parties committed to regular summit meetings and meetings among ministers, other officials and experts. The parties committed to co-operate and converge economic policy, legislation, as well as regulation across a broad range of areas, including equal rights for workers, steps towards visa-free movement of people, the exchange of information and staff in the area of justice, the modernisation of Ukraine's energy infrastructure and access to the European Investment Bank (EIB). The agreement entered into force on 1 September 2017 previously parts had been provisionally applied. It establishes a political and economic association between the parties. The European Union–Ukraine Association Agreement is a European Union Association Agreement between the European Union (EU), the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom), Ukraine and the EU's 28 member states at the time (which are separate parties in addition to the EU and Euratom). General Secretariat of the Council of the European UnionĪll official languages of the European Union and Ukrainian
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