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Kiev, Ukraine: The European Union's foreign policy chief said Tuesday the 28-nation bloc would stay united on Ukraine despite pressure from some members to drop or ease its sanctions on Russia.

Federica Mogherini told Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko during her first visit to the war-torn country since her August appointment that Brussels intended to "walk hand-in-hand" with Kiev.

"We discussed the way in which the European Union -- keeping its unity, which has been there and will continue to be there -- can support the implementation in full and on all points the Minsk agreement," she said in reference to Ukraine's shaky peace deal with Russian-backed rebels.

"We will continue to stay in Ukraine, making sure that this conflict comes to an end with the full respect of Ukrainian sovereignty and territorial integrity," Mogherini, a former Italian foreign minister, added.

The European Union will hold a summit on Thursday in which Ukraine and the bloc's relations with Russia are likely to head the agenda.

EU members like Bulgaria and Italy -- as well as a part of the business community and politicians in Germany -- want to either soften or outright drop sanctions against Russia imposed for its seizure of Crimea and alleged military presence in eastern Ukraine.

Moscow denies backing the rebels and argues that its annexation of Crimea followed a legitimate local vote.

It has also struck back at the West by banning most of its food imports.

Mogherini's own appointment to her post was opposed by some former Soviet satellite nations that fully support tough sanctions on Russia. They are suspicious of her past comments on the need to keep ties with Moscow open.

She has also been criticised for hiring a spokeswoman whose husband is employed by a public relations firm that lobbies for the interests of Russia's state-held natural gas giant Gazprom.

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Brussels, Belgium: The European Union has wasted tens of million of euros on out-of-the-way, underused airports, an auditors' report said Tuesday.

The report examined 20 airport projects in Estonia, Greece, Italy, Poland and Spain which together received 600 million euros ($746 million) of EU funds between 2000 and 2013, the EU Court of Auditors said.

"We found that some airports were not profitable in the long term, some were underused and some were not used at all," said auditor George Pufan in a statement.

The plan will in part target thousands of infrastructure projects, including airports, proposed by member states eager to gain funding for pet projects.

In all, the report found that only half of the airports investigated proved worthy of the EU funds, with an estimated 38 million euros wasted completely.

"In Cordoba (Spain), for example, fewer than 7,000 passengers travelled (through the airport) in 2013, against the 179,000 forecast," a statement introducing the report said.

Moreover, seven of the airports, including the Crotone airport in Italy's Calabria region, are not financially sustainable and will require a steady flow of public funds to remain in operation.

"Both the Commission and the Member States must improve the way they invest in our airports by funding only those which are profitable and for which there is a real investment need," Pufan said.

After the report, the commission acknowledged money was wasted, though the way of calculating funds allocated to the projects had now changed.

"We have a radically different approach that will prevent a repeat of these problems," said commission spokesman Jakub Adamowicz.

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