#eu-accession

#eu-accession

Iliescu was one of the most controversial politicians in the period of democracy that followed the December 1989 overthrow of long-standing dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. He had been a government minister before being sidelined by Ceausescu in the early 1970s.

"What Ukraine has to do is take 50% of the revenues that it collects from the licensing of new natural resource projects in the country and put them in the fund."