21.   Nine years ago, EU leaders decided duty-free constitutes an unfair tax break and makes no sense in a union where frontier controls have largely disappeared.

22.   Proponents argue that absent the break, EU-based companies would enjoy an unfair tax advantage.

23.   Thousands of peasants, farmers and villagers demonstrated against economic inequality, institutional corruption and unfair tax levies.

24.   Van der Laan said the EU has raised the issue of unfair tax breaks at least eight times since last summer but Ukraine officials have never replied.