EU leaders threaten to boycott Euro 2012 over Tymoshenko treatment

Irish Times Monday 30th April, 2012

DANIEL McLAUGHLINEUROPEAN UNION leaders are threatening to boycott June’s Euro 2012 football championship in Ukraine and several have withdrawn from a summit in the country, in protest at its treatment of jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko.The former prime minister is on hunger strike after Ukraine rejected her request to receive treatment for severe back problems in Germany, and she claims she was punched by prison guards recently w...

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