The European Commission recommends granting candidate status to Ukraine

The Council Commission recommends, firstly, to give Ukraine an insight into Europe and, secondly, give it candidate status. This, of course, provided that the country undertakes a certain number of important reformssaid Ms. von der Leyen at a press conference.

” We all know that Ukrainians are willing to die to defend their aspirations in Europe. We want them to live with us, for the dream of Europe. “

This opinion of the European Commission will be discussed at the summit on June 23 and 24. The 27 member countries ofEU will have to fully agree for Ukraine to officially obtain candidate status.

This is the first time that an opinion has been given in a very short time for a request for candidacy forEU. Urgency is necessary because of the war Russia has waged in Ukraine for more than three months, as well as the assistance provided by Europeans to this country to deal with the invasion of Moscow.

Paris, Berlin and Rome spoke out on Thursday for giving immediately in Kyiv of the official status of a candidate forEU, with the visit of French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi. They were accompanied by the president of Romania.

Fight against corruption

European Union membership is, however, a dynamic process that can move forward, stop or return. It depends on the country and our expectations are very clearwarned Ms von der Leyen.

He believes that some development was committed to the fight against corruption in Ukraine, and he stressed the importance of digitalization of methods administrative measures to combat this plague.

According to Ms von der Leyen, the Ukrainian people elected President Volodymyr Zelensky because he wants to fight corruption.

By the way, Ukraine has passed a law against the power of the oligarchs. Mrs von der Leyen hopes he is provides concrete results.

Recognition of the candidate’s status will be the beginning of a long process that will begin with the establishment of a European Commission pre-accession strategy. It is a support program for the reforms needed for integration withEU and accompanied by financial assistance. The opening of official negotiations for Ukraine’s accession, which will take many years, will again require a unanimous vote of Twenty-seven.

Emmanuel Macron, whose country currently holds the presidency ofEUwas estimated in May that a kyiv ascent could take decades.

The European executive also gave a positive opinion on Friday on the candidacy of Moldova, another former Soviet republic. For its part, Georgia still needs to undertake reforms to gain candidate status.

greetings from President Zelensky a historic decision

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was happy on Friday with the recommendation made by the European Commission.

Thanks to Ursula von der Leyen and to every member of the European Commission for a historic decisionwrote Mr. Zelensky on Twitter.

He awaiting a positive result at the European summit on June 23 and 24. This is the first step in joiningEUthat will bring us closer [aussi] definitely a win against Russia, he said.

Meanwhile, the head of Ukrainian diplomacy Dmytro Kouleba accepted shining proof of European leadership at a big help for future changes in Ukraine. European history is movinghe said on Twitter.

Providing candidate status will allowsignificantly accelerate the process of Ukraine’s entry into the internal marketEUthe development of common markets in the energy and digital sectors, the pursuit of trade liberalization, rapprochement in the customs and transport sectorsUkrainian Prime Minister Denys Chmygal told the Telegram.

According to Serguiï Kyslytsya, the Ukrainian ambassador to the UN, the wisdom of the rulers ofEU prevailed sa a truly historic day for Ukraine and Europe.