The EU is not planning to amend the Association Agreement with Ukraine, but does not rule out that it can be done if Kyiv requests such changes, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has told The Wall Street Journal.
"In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, outgoing European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said the EU's executive certainly wouldn't be proposing any changes and couldn't 'prejudge' the outcome of talks with Kyiv and Moscow about the deal. However, he repeatedly declined to rule out accepting real changes," the newspaper wrote.
Barroso said that the European Commission would not rule out changes to its trade and political pact with Ukraine if Kyiv requests such a move.
He said that now all parties should work constructively and there was no reason to dramatize the situation.
"We are open and we are constructive and are pragmatic. If the Ukrainians - listening to Russian concerns - want to discuss some matters with us, of course we are ready to listen," Barroso said.