As of January 11, the Ukrainian farmers have used up 100% of the country's export quota for the supply of honey to the European Union, given its last year's increase, First Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Maksym Martyniuk said Thursday.
EU leaders sparred on migration policy into the early hours of Friday as contentious new plans laid bare deep divisions over how to deal with the next crisis, according to the Financial Times (FT).
Ukraine and Belarus have agreed to raise quotas for permits for international road transportation of passengers and freight to 65,000 units, according to the Ukrainian Infrastructure Ministry's press service.
As of November 8, the proportion of Ukrainian songs on radio stations will increase from 25% to 30%, while the proportion of programs in the Ukrainian language will grow from 50% to 55%.
Ukrainian law No. 5313 on amendments to certain laws of Ukraine regarding the language of audiovisual (electronic) mass media came into force on October 13, obliging the national channels to broadcast at least 75% of their content in the Ukrainian language.
Interinstitutional talks between the European Parliament, the European Council and the country presiding in the EU (Malta) on granting trade preferences to Ukraine have ended with reaching a compromise, according to which quotas for processed tomatoes, wheat, corn, and honey will be reduced, while urea will be excluded, according to an UNIAN correspondent.
The European Parliament has decided to hold interinstitutional negotiations on granting Ukraine additional trade preferences, having deleted two agricultural tariffs, wheat and processed tomatoes, and one industrial tariff, urea, from the annexes, according to an UNIAN correspondent.
A bill has been tabled in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine to introduce Ukrainian-language quotas for the print media, according to the Ukrainian news portal LIGA.net.
The European Union plans to approve new autonomous preferences for Ukraine before the end of June, ahead of the Ukraine-EU summit to be held in the middle of summer, Europeiska Pravda reports with reference to a source in the European Commission.
The Ukrainian parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, has adopted a bill, setting quotas for nationwide TV channels, obliging them to ensure a 75% share of programs and movies in Ukrainian, according to an UNIAN correspondent.