EU officials flip-flopped on corruption and fumbled their political communique at a summit in Kiev on Thursday (13 July).
Jean-Claude Juncker, the European Commission chief, said corruption was “one of the big problems of this country … corruption is undermining all the efforts that this brave nation is undertaking”.
He also warned that “investors won’t come to your country” unless conditions improved.
He then announced a row-back on EU policy.
He said the EU had p...
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