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Jose Manuel Barroso, Herman Van Rompuy and Viktor Yanukovych at a meeting in Vilnius.
Jose Manuel Barroso, Herman Van Rompuy and Viktor Yanukovych at a meeting in Vilnius.

Live Blog: Eastern Partnership Summit In Vilnius

The six Eastern Partnership countries are meeting for a Summit in Vilnius. On the eve of the summit, Georgia and Moldova initialed Association Agreements with the European Union, but no other countries are expected to follow suit.

08:55 29.11.2013
08:41 29.11.2013
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite, whose country currently holds EU presidency and hosts the EU Eastern Partnership summit, said this morning that Ukraine has had no change of heart.

"The Ukrainian government at least yesterday said that they are not ready yet to go further to integrate with the European Union and not ready to sign an agreement," she said. "This only depends on the government decision of today's Ukrainian leadership."

"I think that the Ukrainian people are disappointed, it is not about Europe to be disappointed. I think that today's Ukrainian leadership chose a way that is going nowhere."

01:28 29.11.2013
Interesting video appearing on the YouTube channel of the Lithuanian presidency. German Chancellor Angela Merkel approaches Yanukovych and says, "Good to see you here, but we expected more." It is difficult to hear much of the conversation, but Yanukovych seems to say that his country is under a lot of pressure.

01:12 29.11.2013
European Council President Herman Van Rompuy, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and Yanukovych met late last night, but without apparent agreement. Yanukovych called the EU deal "humiliating" earlier in the week amid massive pro-EU protests in Ukraine.

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