KHARKIV, Dec. 4 – If a free trade zone with the European Union is created, industry in Kharkiv will lose more than it gains, Yuzhcable Plant Director General Volodymyr Zolotarev said.
"My words reflect the general opinion of industrialists in Kharkiv… Of course, industry is in a slightly specific situation in the integration process with the EU. On the one hand, no head of an industrial company opposes integration with the EU in principle, but we oppose the full opening of our country's market, as we will lose more than we gain," Zolotarev said at an extraordinary session of Kharkiv City Council on the social and political situation in the country on Tuesday, December 3.
He said that enterprises of industrial regions in Ukraine are primarily oriented to the CIS countries.
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