last december, and now the moment has come when we all. we want to congratulate deputy prime minister stefanychyna team and the people of ukraine in general for such a significant achievement. i want to thank today, those efforts, particularly on the part of the leaders, who, after all, thanks to their efforts, all this became possible. today, our meeting emphasizes the importance of increasing the macroeconomic policy of the european union union, taking into account the current geopolitical status, because now the context in which we live is now very important for us, we know that this is great news for the people of ukraine, because i want to clearly emphasize here that when we talk... about the future of ukraine in the european union, we mean business. yes, ukraine fulfilled the conditions for us to start the negotiation process, and we know that we owe this success to all the efforts of ukraine's leadership. and we see that in recent months, how great the progress has been. yes, we are tried, they tried to build bilateral relations. with participating countries, in particular regarding nationa