Development
and trade minister Lilianne Ploumen will be heading a #trade_mission to Ukraine
from 15 to 17 March. The mission, which will focus on agri-food and
infrastructure and logistics, will consist of representatives of 30 businesses
active in these sectors.
On
Tuesday Ms Ploumen will be visiting Zeelandia, a Dutch business that produces
bread mixes, and has a meeting with finance minister Natalie Jaresko. On
Wednesday she will attend a debate with students, meet young entrepreneurs,
visit a greenhouse complex in Teplychny and meet with infrastucture minister
Andriy Pyvovarskyi. The trade mission will end on Thursday with a visit to the
Dutch ICT company Control Pay and a meeting with agriculture minister Oleksiy
Pavlenko.
‘There
is huge potential in Ukraine for Dutch businesses and investments,’ Ms Ploumen
explained. ‘In fact there are already 320 Dutch businesses active in the
country. We hope this visit will open the way for new contracts and allow us to
expand on existing ones. That is why the association agreement is so important:
it will speed economic and political reforms and help remove barriers, thus
making trade even easier.’
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