KIEV, March 26 – Integration with the European Union is a priority for the Ukrainian government, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said at a meeting with a delegation of visiting MEPs headed by Adrian Severin, the vice-president of the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament.

"The prime minister said he hoped that talks on the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement, including the establishment of a comprehensive free trade area, would be stepped up," the press service of the Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers reported on Friday.