KIEV, Nov. 25 - The financial assistance offered by the European Union to Ukraine in the amount of 1 billion euro after the signing of the Association Agreement would be extremely small, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said.

"We were told that Ukraine could count on 1 billion euro. One billion euro is nothing. One can say that it is a pittance to a beggar," Azarov said in an interview on Russia's Channel 1's "Sunday time" program.