The EU has also decided to start work on what's called an association agreement with Kosovo itself covering a variety of economic and political ties.

欧盟还决定开启所谓与科索沃的联合协议，覆盖多方面的经济和政治纽带。

The verdict froze progress on an association agreement and free-trade zone with the EU that would offer what James Sherr, a Ukraine specialist at Chatham House in Britain, calls “all the benefits of membership-lite.”

乌克兰与欧盟正在协商当中的准成员国协议和建立自由贸易区的计划因对季莫申科的判决而遭遇搁置。英国皇家国际事务研究所(Chatham House)的乌克兰问题专家James Sherr称，这两项协议将为乌克兰提供欧盟成员国所拥有的一切利处。