KIEV, May 14 – A common goal for all political parties in the European Parliament is to help Ukraine get closer to the European Union, of the European Parliament Vice President and Libor Rouchek has said.

"A common goal for all political parties represented in the European Parliament – be it the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats or the Group of the European People's Party – is to see Ukraine as close to the European Union as possible," the Regions Party's press service quoted him as saying on May 11.