As anti-government protesters downed tools and marched on Kyiv’s Independence Square on Thursday, an EU Commissioner said financial aid is available for Ukraine but only if it reforms.<br /><br />The one-hour, nationwide strike was called by opposition leader and ex-boxing champion Vladimir Klitschko.<br /><br />Both he and President Viktor Yanukovych have met EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele who has spent three days in Kyiv.<br /><br />“On the financial assistance, yes there are conditions, very transparent and I would call them reforms, reforms, reforms,” Fuele told a news conference in the capital. <br /><br />“There is a need to take urgent steps on constitutional reforms, formation of the new inclusive government and ensuring free and fair elections.”<br /><br />Calls for coalition government aside, Fuele has visited those injured in three months of pro-EU protests, both opposition casualties and wounded police officers.
