Top European Union officials are canceling plans to wait events in Ukraine to protest the imprisonment and treatment of former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko.
EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso announced Monday that he'll follow the instance of EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding, who said she would skip the ceremonial Euro 2012 football [soccer] kick-offs in June.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel also has warned that she may boycott all Euro 2012 matches in Ukraine and expects her ministers to do the identical.
The tournament, Europe's essential football championship for national teams, is being co-hosted by Poland and Ukraine from June 8 until July 1.
Also Monday, Czech President Vaclav Klaus canceled his visit to the summit of Central European heads of state scheduled for May 11 and 12 in Yalta.
Klaus is the second one president to refuse to visit Ukraine for the summit, after German President Joachim Gauck. Â
Tymoshenko was sentenced to seven years in prison last year on charges of abuse of office in a 2009 gas concentrate on Russia. She is now standing trial on tax evasion charges which may extend her prison time to twelve years. Tymoshenko denies the fees and says they're component to a campaign by President Viktor Yanukovich to take away his strongest political rival.
She was on a hunger strike for greater than every week, after she said she was beaten by prison guards. German doctors diagnosed Tymoshenko last week with back problems they are saying can not be treated in Ukraine, however the Kyiv government has refused appeals to permit her to go away.
From WhatNewsToday.net
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