Interfactional Union "Eurooptimists"
Interfactional Union "Eurooptimists" | |
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| Co-Coordinators | Olena Sotnyk Alyona Shkrum Oleksii Mushak |
| Founded | February 3, 2015 |
| Dissolved | August 29, 2019 |
| Headquarters | Kyiv, Ukraine |
| Ideology | Pro-Europeanism |
| Seats in the Verkhovna Rada | 0 / 450
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The Interfactional Union "Eurooptimists" (Ukrainian: Міжфракційне об'єднання "Єврооптимісти", Mizhfraktsiine ob’iednannia "Yevrooptymisty") was an association of people's deputies (members of parliament) of the 8th convocation (2014–2019) of the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's unicameral parliament. It was established in Kyiv on 3 February 2015.[1] The inter-factional group was discontinued after the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election.[2]
The group aimed to promote ties between
Ukraine–EU Association Agreement and the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area.[3]
In the autumn of 2015, attempts and negotiations started to form a political party around then Governor of Odesa Oblast
Petro Poroshenko Bloc joined to Democratic Alliance instead.[5]
Members
The Interfactional Union "Eurooptimists" consisted of 25 deputies (8 from the
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References
- ^ Ukrayinska Pravda(in Ukrainian). 3 February 2015. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
- Hromadske.TV(25 August 2019)
- ^ "5 "Eurooptimists" and other colleagues from parliament and members of the public have signed a memorandum of European integration". EuroOptimists (in Ukrainian). Twitter. 5 February 2015. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
- Ukrayinska Pravda(in Ukrainian). 4 July 2016. Retrieved 5 August 2017.
- ^ A new party for Ukraine’s euro-optimists? Archived 26 March 2017 at the Wayback Machine, openDemocracy (15 August 2016)
- ^ "In the Verkhovna Rada, the Interfactional Union "Eurooptimists" was created" (in Ukrainian). Union "Self Reliance". Retrieved 12 February 2015.