Ukraine's parliament approved a budget for 2017 on Wednesday, raising its chance of securing more aid from the International Monetary Fund under a $17.5 billion loan package.
The Batkivshchyna (Fatherland) faction in the Verkhovna Rada has decided to expel MP Nadiya Savchenko from the faction, a Friday statement of the party reads.
The Federal Parliament of Canada will hold hearings on the Canada-Ukraine Free Trade Agreement next week, Canadian government’s representative in parliament Bardish Chagger said.
Preparations for the adoption of the State Budget-2017 as a whole - the main issue of this plenary week. MPs must still approve some bills relating to formation of the budget.
Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada has passed a bill amending some Ukrainian laws removing administrative barriers for exports of services. The bill was passed at second reading on Thursday.
The Petro Poroshenko Bloc faction will not support a draft resolution of the Verkhovna Rada on appeal to the Cabinet of Ministers regarding termination of the intergovernmental agreement on visa-free travel of Ukrainians to Russia, MP from the Petro Poroshenko Bloc faction Oleksiy Honcharenko told journalists on the sidelines of the Parliament, Ukrinform reports.