The Interfactional Union "Eurooptimists" (, ) was an association of people's deputies (members of parliament) of the 8th convocation (2014–2019) of the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's unicameral parliament. It was established in Kyiv on 3 February 2015. The inter-factional group was discontinued after the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election. Oleksiy Ryabchyn three days before the expiration of the People's Deputy's term: how the picture of the future and the past is changing, Hromadske.TV (25 August 2019)
The group aimed to promote ties between Ukraine and the European Union by reaffirming the Ukrainian Eurointegration course, and by ensuring the effective implementation of the Ukraine–EU Association Agreement and the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area.
In the autumn of 2015, attempts and negotiations started to form a political party around then Governor of Odesa Oblast Mikheil Saakashvili and members of the parliamentary group "Eurooptimists", Democratic Alliance and possibly Self Reliance this projection collapsed in June 2016. In August 2016 "Eurooptimists" Svitlana Zalishchuk, Serhiy Leshchenko and Mustafa Nayyem from the Petro Poroshenko Bloc joined to Democratic Alliance instead.A new party for Ukraine’s euro-optimists? , openDemocracy (15 August 2016)
Members The Interfactional Union "Eurooptimists" consisted of 25 deputies (8 from the Petro Poroshenko Bloc, 2 from the People's Front, 6 from Self Reliance, and 5 from Fatherland and 4 non-affiliated): Oleksandr Chernenko (PPB) Dmytro Dobrodomov (Non-affiliated) Vladyslav Golub (Non-affiliated) Hanna Hopko (Non-affiliated) Nataliya Katser-Buchkovska (People's Front) Serhiy Kiral (Self Reliance) Ivan Krulko (Fatherland) Serhiy Leshchenko (PPB) Ihor Lutsenko (Fatherland) Yaroslav Markevych (Self Reliance) Oleksiy Mushak (PPB) Mustafa Nayyem (PPB) Taras Pastukh (Self Reliance) Viktoriya Ptashnyk (Non-affiliated) Anna Romanova (Self Reliance) Pavlo Rizanenko (PPB) Oleksiy Ryabchyn (Fatherland) Alyona Shkrum (Fatherland) Olena Sotnyk (Self Reliance) Andriy Vadaturskyi (PPB) Victoria Voytsitska (Self Reliance) Serhiy Yevtushok (Fatherland) Leonid Yemets (People's Front) Oksana Yurynets (PPB) Svitlana Zalishchuk (PPB)
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External links
2015-2016 report of the interfactional union "EuroOptimists" на SlideShare __NOTOC__