EU deal in doubt after Tymoshenko vote delayed Mr Yanukovich's supporters want her to be simply released to Germany for treatment and then to return to Ukraine to complete her sentence. The opposition is pushing an option under which her sentence could be wiped out after treatment. These differences could still conceivably be reconciled before Vilnius, but time is running out. EU foreign ministers are due to hold a pre-summit meeting on November 18 to assess whether Kiev has met key democratic criteria. One of these is an end to "selective justice" which the EU says was applied against Tymoshenko and some of her circle. Two EU envoys, Irish politician Pat Cox and former Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski, who have been on a shuttle mission from Brussels to Kiev to nail down a compromise, attended the special parliament session. They were due to return to Brussels and give a news conference on their findings on Wednesday evening. But they did not appear to have a summit-saving formula in the bag. What will they report? Mission not accomplished? The key objective has not been achieved," said one diplomat who has closely monitored the Tymoshenko case. "The closer we get to the summit, the clearer it becomes that the authorities do not want to sign because the association agreement means the introduction of European standards which is a path that Yanukovich's authorities do not want," said Vitaly Klitschko, the world boxing champion who heads the opposition UDAR (Punch) party. Olexander Yefremov, head of the pro-Yanukovich Regions Party faction, accused the opposition of sabotaging the signing, saying its representatives had not cooperated in drawing up an agreed law for her release.