european program of the renaissance fund dmytro shulga . so, the summit of the european union is going on right now. the most important question is whether to grant ukraine the status of a candidate country for joining the european union. i have been following european politics from here for many years from brussels and i can say without exaggeration that the event is historical, we will analyze in detail what it means in practice if we discard all the political pathos and how it can influence the life of every ukrainian, but he suggests starting with the statement of the president of the european council , charles michel, and pay attention to how this morning he simply shone with optimism. this is a decisive moment for the european union. this is a geopolitical choice that we will make today. i am convinced that we will grant candidate status to ukraine and moldova, as well as a clear perspective, a european perspective for ukraine , georgia, and moldova, and about the court at this moment it becomes clear that the negotiations of the eu leaders at the summit in brussels are somewhat complicated by the wishes of some countries to also grant the status o

the status of a candidate for membership in the european union, the people of ukraine elected by two revolutions and two wars, the european union sees for itself that this is a key historical moment in the expansion and strengthening of the european union, or democracy will expand or dictatorships are like this as putin and everyone else will expand, so i hope that a political decision will be made, at least i have this feeling, oh, the kyiv security forum i just held an online discussion on this matter and there were also ukrainian government officials, that is, i feel that in principle there is no obstacle on the way to the decision to grant ukraine the status of a candidate that you are members of the european union was granted. well, i propose to listen just to confirm these words er, ursovo fudderleinu, she is the head of the european commission, what did she say? that's how i see it in us. so now let's listen and then continue the candidate status, understanding that a number of important reforms will be carried out in the country. ukraine clearly demonstrated he

, support granting ukraine the status of a candidate for eu members and that they share our european aspirations, believe in the inevitable membership of ukraine in the european unionry high- level meeting, she personally addressed the speakers of the presidents prime ministers to advocate for the day in ukraine apply to their colleagues from other countries of the european union who have so-called doubts countries of the european union with a request to support granting ukraine the status of a candidate for membership already in june, and here my opinion, especially hers, is that each country and the opinion of each country is extremely important, there are currently no big and small countries of the european union, the voice of each country is absolutely important, and the new eastern european countries will now play a big role here. they are now taking the lead in this. we also use trips for eu countries to raise the issue of bringing to international criminal responsibility all war criminals of the russian federation who committed atrocities here, too, it is extremely important that the political position of the parliament is to call a spade a spade, and that w

i would like to remind you that today is a historic day for ukraine and 27 member states of the european unioned granting our country the status of a candidate for eu membership . minister of foreign affairs of ukraine dmytro kuleba and head of european diplomacy jose borel also congratulated on the granted status. let's listen to them without unnecessary comments against the background of the war in today, the european council made a historic decision in europe. the european union granted ukraine the status of a candidate country for membership. this is a decisive moment for the european union of ukraine and democracy in our country. common continent because europe is our common home, russian armed aggression will not be able to deprive people in europe of the right to live a normal and dignified life, ukraine will win, europe will win, we will go through a long journey together, which begins today. membership in the european union with this historic decision the european union sends a powerful signal the ukrainian people are part of the european family of nations the future of ukraine in to

of trafficking." well, let me remind you that today is a historic day for ukraine and 27 member states of the european unioned granting our country the status of a candidate for eu membership. the minister of foreign affairs of ukraine, dmytro kuleba, and the head of european diplomacy, josé borel, also congratulated the new status. let's listen to them without unnecessary comments. against the background of the war in europe and today the european council adopted a historic decision resgrating the european union granted ukraine the status of a candidate country for membership, this is a decisive moment for the european union of ukraine and democracy on our common continent because europe is our common home russian armed aggression will not be able to deprive people in europe of living a normal and dignified life ukraine europe will win we will go through a long journey together which begins today just now we urgently begin preparations for the integration of ukraine into the european structure and at the end of membership in the european union, with this historic decision, the european union sends a powerf

president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyi on twitter welcomed the positive conclusion of the european commission on granting ukraine the status of a candidate for membership of the european union, he noted that this decision brings our victory closer and also thanked the president of the european commission , ursola fond deryan, and every member of the european commission for the historic decision, now ukraine expects a positive outcome of the european council meeting next week british prime minister boris johnson personally received a letter from six-year-old ilya kostushevich from mariupol, the boy's parents died as a result of russian shelling of the city, and he himself was saved by volunteers in may. ilya learned about boris johnson's appeal to ukrainian children and decided to write him a reply with thanks and congratulations to everyone to the children of britain, the boy added a painted flag of ukraine and a photo of himself with his beloved cat to the letter, ukrzaliznytsia employees passed this link to the head of britain during his trip to kyiv, then we will talk about the euro-atlantic prospects of our country in the context of the decision of the european commissi

ukraine could become a member of the eu under a simplified procedure. he compares ukraine now with other european countries that at one point or another became members of the european union, for example , albania, etc. what are we talking about stabilizing the geopolitical situation? ukraine plays an important role on the part of france today we understand the weight of their efforts of the european parliament in relation to ukraine, now the door is open for ukraine to stabilize the situation, the european family, there are no certain restrictions on the territories, move on and let us have more freedom of speech is political and makes it possible to expand the borders of the european union. bearing in mind the economic context, we must also act ahead, but from a continental perspective, we would not act like that, we understand that now there is a certain system of stoma from war and therefore we cannot allow this to continue combine types and only openkas we call on the entire european community for a positive response and what we saw from today only confirms the joint efforts, well, look at me or i will buy and you will visit you first we have a-a to strive for stabil

of the great european union. it was nataliya forsyuk , director general of the government office for the coordination of european and euro-atlantic integration after the dignity of ukrainened the association agreement with the european union, then it was a step towards the increase of economic cooperation and the implementation of a number of reforms in the judicial sphere, education, science, the course of decentralization of local self-government bodies was also strengthened, and the turning point there was the introduction of a visa-free regime between ukraine and the eu in 2017. one of the main conditions for granting our country a visa-free regime was the institution of anti-corruption what prospects does the application offer to ukraine , which is not the eu? we will continue to discuss this topic and ask what andrius kubilius thinks. he is a member of the european parliament. he is in touch with us. understands the russian language, so i have to switch to it. good afternoon, andrews, and we only talked about it in the last half hour. ukraine will be able to successfully move along the track to membership well, first of all, i want to congratulate ukraine and the

is also pressure from society. actually, now in several cities of the european union, actions have taken place in support of granting ukraine the status of a candidate for membership in the european union, at the june summit of the bloc, such actions were held in brussels, berlin, vienna, milan, paris, prague, and warsaw and these actions are extremely beautiful and we are unfurling large ukrainian flags and representatives of active civil society in different countries are coming out to remind their authorities about the values ​​that are actually protected by the european union, which has declared as having united values ​​for this for this european union, we will talk about this in more detail in the next part of our program, we will interrupt for several important informational messages from our tv channel, and after that we will return to this studio in a few minutes to to communicate with vitaly bortnyk and together summarize live the main political results of our week, it is very important in this difficult time to be aware of what is happening, we tell the news and help to understand the events, however, the war can

president of the european union, that is, of that political european union, after the end of his term as the president of france and there will be directly the european union as we know it now, which ukraine will join. i believe that we can jump in for this, a lot is needed, a lot is needed from the point of view of changing our mentality. yes, we europeans, unlike the russians, this is all europe the second time in hd they finally understood that russia is not just about putin as a dictator, it's not just about the eurasian and russian elites who have a revanchist imperial rivet in their heads, but also russians who are the same for whom this medieval structure is conditional boyars, and what is it called there, shacks? this is something that can exist, and the increase in territory is the only thing they worry about and what we have been hammering into our heads since childhood. they are beginning to understand our medieval history, that there was magdeburg law in ukrainian cities, they are beginning to understand that our society is completely different from the russian one, but we talked about it a lot, uh, only now, uh, it's not easy for them they heard it, they felt it, and they sta

new history of ukraine, the new history of europe even stronger and freer thank you all very much glory to ukraine for as the historic for ukraine itself and the leaders of the european union took place, the correspondent of public olena kurinkova olena watched all day as the discussion on obtaining status for ukraine in brussels took place, and we certainly celebrated at least as much as we could our victory, this is a really great victory for ukraine to obtain candidate status because does not mean a transition to a new level of interaction with the european union, how the discussions took place, in fact, it is difficult for me to say, because everything happened behind closed doors and happened for quite a long time i think it was a little surprising and a little stressful that the discussion took longer than planned, probably because, in principle, we knew the day before that the majority of the member states of the european union were not even the majority. and everyone had to support this decision and there should not be many surprises, so it was not a little strange that this discussion dragged on, but if in principle there were practically no doubts that ukraine wo

care of the issues of euro-atlantic integration in this process, in the process of ukraine's movement to the european unionthere were different periods, now we are already on the threshold of the european union, let's explain to our viewers what ukraine's candidacy means european union and what period - this candidacy can occupy energy in this process . i was sent with special assignments to take care of european integration issues, but this topic is close to me in the 90s, when i worked in the presidential administration. took care of issues of foreign policy activity, just then we took the first but very important steps to advance to nato, although she did not see too many of us among her members at that time, but the positive was exactly then when we started this process, so he is already 25 years old, thank god and now we are getting closer to the fact that it will have a historical significance and that it will have not only a political significance, but a practical significance for us and for all ukrainians. what does this mean in real life? it means that we will be considered by the european union a

care of the issues of euro-atlantic integration in this process, in the process of ukraine's movement to the european unionthere were different periods, now we well, on the threshold of the european union, let's explain to our viewers what ukraine's candidacy in the european union means and what period this candidacy can take in this process, and you're right, mr. serhiy, i was just on special errands, who took care of european integration issues, but this this topic is close to me from the inside, actually, in the 1990s, when i worked in the administration of president kuchma, and we took care of foreign policy issues , it was then that we took the first but very important steps to advance to nato, although at that time, prytulu did not see too many of us among its members, but besides that, it was then that we started this process, so it is already 25 years old, thank god, and now we are getting closer to what will actually have historical significance and which will have not only political significance and the meaning is practical for us and for all ukrainians. what does this mean in real life? it means

strategic tasks, so to speak, then of course it will become clear that it is possible for ukraine and does not need, like turkey today, to obey the lord of the european unionkraine is strategic, this is written in the constitution ukraine should become a member of the european union, therefore, the fulfillment of these non-conditions, as emphasized, are not conditions , but directions, where we must bring the reforms to the end of implementation, as it is, i am one of those components that will lead us to membership, and we want membership. thank you, mr. volodymyr. i will also ask you about johnson's visit and about the four steps for the event. but that will already be included in our next one. we will be waiting for you again on the air. thank you for this interesting conversation. britain and the minister of foreign affairs of ukraine was in touch with us in 2009. and right now yaroslav zheleznyak, people's deputy of ukraine and first deputy chairman of the committee on finance, tax and customs policy, is in touch with us and joins our conversation we welcome mr. yaroslav to our broadcast. good afternoon. well, let's actually start with the main result

of the european union. what is your forecast, mr. volunteers? i am almost sure that the status of a candidate for membership of the european union ukraine will receive, well, this is simply dictated by the current political situation, and in this regard , president zelensky correctly said that the question of ukraine's membership in the european union or at least the granting of candidate status is not a question of ukraine's future membership in the eu, it is a question of the future of the european union. and if some european leaders they don't understand this, well, it's very bad , because a negative decision will inevitably lead to er, er, certain internal problems, because some of those countries that resist well, they will come across the understanding of those countries that, on the contrary, support ukraine's new entry into the european union, this is one aspect and another aspect . is sociology a european matter for you? germany and there at least two -thirds of citizens are in favor of the fact that ukraine should become a member of the european union, so if some politicians stand in the way of history if you can say so, hmm, i think it wi

blocked by russia and negotiations, the first statement, all diplomats want to see ukraine as part of the european union, all four of us will support granting ukraine the status of a candidate for the european union, this status is tied to the road map a you should also take into account the situation in the balkans and in neighboring countries, particularly in moldova. we hope that the decision will be unanimously adopted at the meeting of the council of europe, germany and france will provide ukraine with new arms packages, paris will hand over six more self-propelled artillery units to ukraine, caesar promised to hand over multiple rocket launchers to ukraine, the only question is the time frame, and it remains open germany has broken its state tradition, we began to supply weapons to ukraine, we will do it and in the future, as long as necessary, we teach the ukrainian military to use modern weapons, self-propelled howitzers and anti-aircraft guns . we also promised that we will put in iris installations to ukraine, which will protect entire cities from air raids, we have agreed with the usa and gre

including politically, what we managed to achieve at the beginning, namely the european the union accepted the application of ukraine. this is important . for many years, they did not even want to hear about the fact that ukraine will become a member of this organization of the european union in the future. therefore, consideration of ukraine's application to provide us with a candidate is a very important step that we have overcome very today the situation is developing quickly. let's say it's 50 to 50. i wouldn't like to talk about three countries or about a larger number. but there are forces in the european union, political forces that would like to slow down the process of granting ukraine the status of a candidate, and secondly, the acquisition of membership, remember, a few days ago. a week ago, a member of france, macrovo macron, spoke about tens of years that would be needed for ukraine to become a member of the european union, so we are all waiting for this summit it is very important what the european commission will write in its conclusions, but the tortsova fund was in ukraine today, she held all the ne

this is a very large cost and a very large profit from the fact that all of ukraine will eventually be a member of the european union and this is not obvious and not a simple story. the high price of the lives of our soldiers and people who fought for european values ​​and not for the presence of ukraine in some customs union or at the st. petersburg economic forum is a fateful historical decision. zelensky tomorrow begins a truly historic day a week when we will hear the answer from the european union on the status of a candidate for ukraine almost a positive decision of the european commission at the end of the new week will be answers of the european council i think it is obvious to everyone that in 1991 there were not many such fateful decisions for ukraine as we expect now . i am sure that only a positive decision is in the interest of the whole of europe. who are members of the european council, if any member of the eu blocks the decision on the application of ukraine, what will happen then, then the decision will be postponed to the next summit. i think that this will not happen. russia wanted this very much,

european cuisine. therefore, maybe you will tell me and our viewers about when ukraine will be able to obtain the status of a candidate country for admission to of the european union the european commission will announce its opinion on ukraine's request for candidate country status in june in june the opinion of the european commission will be in a few weeks, but as we know the european union does not have a consensus on this issue, but all the political leaders of the eu have already very clearly said that ukraine is part and member of the european family , there is no doubt about this. however, there is currently no consensus on how to best integrate ukraine into this european family, some eu members such as the baltic countries or poland clearly state that the status of a candidate country in the country must be granted immediately and that we must also immediately start negotiations on the inclusion of ukraine so that ukraine can join the european union as soon as possible, other member states such as france, italy, germany believe that for it will take 15 to 20 years to complete the negotiations on the accession of ukraine and the accession to the european un

ukraine to the european family, actually. does this mean that in the next two weeks ukraine will receive this status ? of the commission of the european union, according to the executive body of this association, regarding the readiness of ukraine to obtain the same status as a candidate country for eu accession, and this is undoubtedly a victory in itself because until recently in the european union , even against the backdrop of the war, there were countries that offered to grant ukraine not the immediate full status of a candidate for membership in the eu, but the status of a potential candidate, and putting forward certain conditions in practice means that the country would be rejected again for years, if not decades of reforms, and this is despite what ukraine is currently experiencing, but in the end we see that this approach has won, first of all, even for reforms there are certain time frames and limits, and ukraine has succeeded in recent years to carry out some successful reforms and will do some work in the coming years, and secondly, in the end, the very context of the consideration of the application for candidacy to join the e

so, 27 votes for all the leaders of the european union at the summit in brussels decided to grant ukraine the status of a candidate for joining the european union . president volodymyr zelenskyy called the candidacy one of the most important decisions for us for 30 years and expressed his conviction that ukraine is capable of becoming a full member of the european union . and the europeans as a whole follow this path - this is not politics. i believe that this is what will now always be the starting point of the new history of europe without the division of europe without the gray areas of a europe that is truly united and that knows how to protect itself, its values, its future , today you adopted one of of the most important decisions for ukraine in all 30 years of the independence of our state, however, this decision is not only for ukraine, i consider the biggest step towards strengthening europe that could be taken right now, so we congratulate each and every ukrainian on such a historic by the decision of the european union meanwhile, the president of the european commission, ursula

will not only adopt the european experience, but will also be able to influence the formation of industry politicians of the european union. from now on, the process of ukraine'sntegration into the eu has become irreversible, and the european union will allocate up to nine billion euros of macro-financial assistance to ukraine. the european commission adopted a decision based on the results of the summit. the council of europe called on the commission to offer as soon as possible ways to support the reconstruction of ukraine by the european union. cooperation regarding the restoration should take place with international partners, organizations and experts, this is stated in the final comfy council. this is olena symonenko, deputy head of the office of the president of ukraine. look at ukraine. we are now completing the development together with the world bank of the assessment of the impact of what happened to the infrastructure in ukraine so that we have be able to receive aid and rebuild our countries if we are talking only about fast recovery. that is, it is a housing stock over the occupied territories and a minimum number of social infrastructure facilit

european union after the actual agreement on ukraine's accession to the european union is necessarily signed, drawn up, ratified and from the date specified in the agreement ukraine can become a member of european union, but actually i will add one more remark, the negotiation process, hmm, it depends entirely on the candidate state, so, for example, again, some turkey, a country in the country, there was a rollback from democracy , the country has been negotiating with the european union for 10 or more years, but when if there was such a retreat from democratic practices, the negotiations were effectively frozen, therefore it is worth understanding that the speed of the negotiation process will directly depend on the speed of the implementation of reforms in well, i will also make a remark to ukraine. well, let's add today, it probably took journalists half an hour at the press conference to find out what the european commission's recommendation to grant the status of a candidate country means, and also to start negotiations. here's what european commissioner vergey said today today, we are passing the first decision in everything in the process of accession, that is, we offer the sta

that is, it is not a question of the future of ukraine in the european union, it is a question of theean union if on today, the europeans will not be able to reach an agreement on ukraine's future application to the eu, well, this means that i think that serious processes will begin in the european union fragmentation and centrifugal processes because i think that some countries of the european union are our staunchest supporters well, they are unlikely to put up with such a statement of the question and such a blatant disregard for their position on the part of well, the so -called old europe, they are inclined to think that after all wisdom european leaders will have enough wisdom and the issue of the candidate will be resolved positively, but already the processes of acquiring a full-fledged member will definitely take much more time, but unfortunately now we see that apart from we also have ardent supporters of the opposition in the european union, in your opinion, who are the main oppositionists on our path to european integration? well, i wouldn't even say oppositionist, i would

hand and the european union sanctions were tougher against russia and the position of the european union was tougher and the position of the european union regarding the application of ukraine was would be more obvious because great britain influenced it and had much more weight than, say, other countries that are currently supporting our candidacy, such as poland, but this is already a choice of the british norm vitaly, i ask you to express your opinion about the possibility of crimea being necessary to repeat the fate of the german students for the russians. as far as we know, the czech republic is still considered a necessary and correct decision. the czechs can consider any decision that was made in the wrong way after the second world war to be a necessary and correct decision, but i do not i understand very well why ukrainians who were evicted from their lands during the vistula operation can agree with the fact that people are expelled from their native homes for military reasons these actions were not accompanied by what happened in europe after the second world war was a tragedy for many peoples, including students, and i think it is precisely as a tragedy that peo

correctly, the truth is now officially, the european commission recommended granting ukraine the official status of a candidate for accession to the european unionhe european commission, ursula von deryan, announced this, and the european commission also recommended to ukraine grant the status of a candidate for eu membership to moldova , while georgia, which also submitted an application, will receive candidate status only after fulfilling certain conditions decided at the european commission, the correspondent of radio svoboda in the european union traditionally works in brussels zoryana stepanenko she followed current events verb historical day today for ukraine, the conclusion of the european commission regarding the candidate is positive, and this is much more than the political leadership in kyiv could expect until february 24. previously, the european union was limited to with abstract statements that ukraine belongs to the european family, but today they have gone much further and officially recognized the european perspective of ukraine, which they previously refrained from, and the main achievement is recommending that it be given the

will also be approval by the member countries of the european union, yes, but the opinion of the european union is that it is unequivocally on the side of ukrainestatus. well, because each country has its own political interests, for example, the political class of germany believes that ukraine should not be a member of the european union, hungary believes that, thanks to this process, we can put pressure on ukraine regarding transcarpathia, the hungarian minority and many more of their wishes relative to ukraine. that is, we must understand that nations can support countries of the european union, but politicians may have their own specific interests, which can be realized using otaku, the oppositional role in the european union. well, we see how hungary does it, for example, and it is also in the european union about germany. i wanted to ask you about germany. uh, the government is under pressure from the public and other countries for well, i mean, the german government will provide some heavy weapons to ukraine, and now this process has slowed down and stopped anyway. how do you assess what is happening in this country? i appreciate their p

formation of the european in the union, any country can become a european union, a member of the european union, so let's not get confused here about what it is supposed to be. to remind that ukrained its readiness and desire to join the european court back in 1997, when we signed the first agreement on cooperation with the european union, thank you volodymyr volodymyr khandogii president of ukraine foreign policy association and acting minister of foreign affairs of ukraine in 2009. thank you, mr. volodymyr. so, next we will talk about our diplomatic front, and then we will talk about the front, about the front, about our front, but about those who fight not only with weapons. in ukraine, on june 12, christians of the eastern rite celebrated the holy trinity and celebrated it in particular and on the front lines, our military chaplains helped them in this. what services do you now have the right to do? of the orthodox church of ukraine by dmitriy the juror p dmytroy good evening glory to ukraine good night good studio god give glory to ukraine heroes please tell me how they celebrated the trinity in the trenches no matter what, this is a great, bright holiday and i am sure that e

of ukraine . during the war and before the war, what is in ukraine is absent in many countries of the european unionroslav the ukrainian president convinced the danish society and the authorities that the claims against us are groundless. so we we know that the deputy head of the president's administration or the president's office, mr. zhovkva , visited denmark and is now cautiously optimistic about the fact that this is a certain plan to convince us that we have better things than danish society does the danish government think that with anti-corruption activities, on the other hand , it is possible to agree with the president of ukraine that we have created enough structures and maybe he is right that in other countries, not all countries , even the european union, have such structures, but see how they work two years ago, the head of the special anti-corruption prosecutor’s office has already resigned, there were promises from the ukrainian leadership even to president baidug during zelensky’s visit to the united states to participate in the national assembly last year, that the head of sap will

that is, it will be the leadership of ukraine and the european union is very important why because infact this is a hint that ukraine is still considered by european institutions as a future member of the eu so the eu and ukraine will be engaged in general leadership for this recovery and beyond, funds will come not only from the european union, but also from the united states of america, because i will remind you that recently a proposal for a so-called package of 40 billion dollars was accepted, in which also, by the way, nine billion dollars for the immediate support of ukraine and there is also talk about the need to take part in the reconstruction of ukraine, as well as funds from various international institutions from other donor countries that will also participate in the reconstruction of ukraine, as well as private structures that when we talk about the restoration of ukraine, we sometimes forget the statement of certain private companies, or for example, there was a statement from the football club borussia dortmund that they want to rebuild the stadium in chernihiv. that i

of the european union, and this will be extremely important in order to, firstly, improve the living conditions of the ukrainian people, and secondly, in this way, european businessmen could to convince our political leaders that ukraineuld be integrated into the european union as soon as possible, this is the first thought of a friend, i would advise my ukrainian friends to speed up political and economic reforms to the point of using the incredible economic potential of your country, because if you introduce the necessary reforms, you will convince the european leaders that ukraine will not be a burden for the european union. and the advantage is that ukraine is a country with fantastic potential . if you use it properly, you will be able to to convince the political and economic leaders of the eu that it was they who were interested in joining the european union relatively quickly, mr. minvareli, i really hope that our government officials will watch our interview and hear what you just said and what you proposed, and this will help speed up the process. i really hope so thank you so some european leaders at least that's what i've read about they say it's time to abolish the unanimity article they say it can help t

conversation about the international component of our support we will talk further about when and how ukraine will quickly become a member of the european union so the majority of members the european union has a positive attitude towards the rapid granting of eu candidate status to ukraine. this was announced by the president of ukraine, volodymyr zelenskyi. countries that are still a little skeptical about this, negotiations are underway, let's hear the president, there have already been several calls with such uh and communication with such states friendly states, but so far they are a little skeptical um who are a little skeptical about our future or our rapid membership in relation to the european union, and so, in principle, everyone is publicly positive. well, almost all of us will believe that, we act in many vectors to get a fair status regarding the candidate and in the european union is headed by one of such friendly vectors. our friends are grateful for this support. in addition, i would like to add that already in june, the european council should consider the application for membership from ukraine. volodymyr zelenskyi, during h

at the summit of the leaders of the european union at the end of june, our states ukraine, the republic of albania, the republic of montenegro , the republic of north macedonia should become full members of the european union, and we agree that our states are not competitors in this on the european path, they only complement and strengthen each other's capabilities . albania is among the countries that have the status of a candidate for the eu, and its countries have received it for more than 10 years therefore, despite this, nato member states do not see competition in the struggle for accession to the c 10,000 which is now one and 80% of our entire population we are a small nation we feel as if we are accepting native people we hmm don't call them refugees they live here in ukraine they have temporary shelter in our candidacy for the country is simply recognition of what ukraine deserves. ukraine has its place in the european family because of the values ​​that are because of the principles and the principles that we all share, and this is the right of ukraine to be part

it is very the second important thing is to show the real unity of the countries of the european union in support of ukraine show that there is no unity in the european union again and there is no of unity around ukraine oleksii ryabchyn, adviser to the vice-prime minister on european and euro- atlantic integration, adviser to the chairman of the board of nak naftogaz of ukraine, now with us, mr. oleksii , good night, we welcome you, good evening, colleagues, so about what we are waiting for, yes, the decision regarding ukraine's candidacy as a member of the consideration of the further procedure of membership in the european union. so how do you feel about this? we observe cautious optimism in many of our speakers. but does it have a basis? with our partners in the european union well, i have nothing to add to the words dear mr. vice-speaker olena kondratyuk, she is very right, she communicates such important things, i know how much mrs. olena and the speakers, many people 's deputies are doing now for our european integration talking with colleagues from different parliaments and i know how much our vice-

hand, the sanctions of the european union were tougher against russia, and the position of the european union was tougher, and the position of the european union regarding ukraine'se obvious, because great britain influenced it and had much more weight than, say, other countries that are currently supporting our candidacy, such as like poland, but this is already a choice of the british norm. vitaliy, i ask you to express your opinion about the possibility of repeating the fate of student germans for the russians. crimea, as far as is known, is the czech republic still considered the czechs can consider any decision that was made in the wrong way after the second world war to be a necessary and correct decision, but i don't really understand why ukrainians, who were evicted from their lands during the vistula operation in the same way, can agree with that that people are being expelled from their native homes, that these actions were not accompanied by military considerations, that what happened after the second world war in europe was a tragedy for many peoples, including for students and me i think it is a tragedy that people who in the 21st century adhere to s

ukraine because of the fact that the former president is yunukovych. uh, said i needed to think about principles. e, means associated associated membership of the european unionnd why do you understand, if you opened it now , read e, means principles and requirements. in ukraine, they actually took them to associate membership, well, the requirements are absolutely redundant, they just kill at all uh, all the basics. uh, they killed all the basics for that period of time. uh, it means that the main branches of production were simply opening the gates of the gate. uh, the customs gate of ukraine for relatively cheap and high-quality products from the eu countries. well, the heads could not be raised by the entrepreneur, but it happened that they did not want to join. he says, i need to think about these parameters, i need to work on these parameters, no, immediately now. well, the result is lost, i absolutely repeat the aircraft industry of the court, who needs uh ukrainian aircraft industry? well, to whom. here are the engines of the structure, the motor siz produced this. uh, that means the engines are all russian, uh, that means, uh, the entire russian heli

slovakia will support granting ukraine the status of a candidate for the european union. president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyi announced this on twitter. he said that he coordinated with the prime minister country by eduard hegger's position on the eve of the meeting of the european council, which will be held on june 23 and 24. on ukraine's path to the european union, a nationwide marathon is underway, the only news, and now at this time we are joined by volodymyr fesenko, a political scientist. which i showed that in the case of a referendum , 87% of ukrainians support joining the european union, and support for joining nato also increased after the referendum, 76% would support the initiative; in march, there were a little less 68% did not support joining the alliance, they would say against joining the european union 4% and according to nato 10% of the respondents how would you comment on plu- volodymyr, these are the numbers that continue to grow in the future, these are really record figures never in our history there was no such level of support for joining the e

of the european commission expressed himself . of finance which countries receive for the further implementation of e reforms as well as preparation for accession directly to the european union. currently, ukrainel several requirements for further european integration, in particular, these are seven requirements e-e, this is the improvement of strengthening the fight against corruption e reforming the judicial system and the constitutional court as well as to make changes to the laws on media resources and national minorities. however, it is possible to say that this decision is such a signal for everyone, for investors , including that ukraine will continue to actively move will move er to europe, i chose the european path of development, irod is your word, thank you, tanya, for including me. despite such difficult weather, and such difficult weather conditions, you were in touch with us, and i will remind our viewers. this was our colleague tetyana blinova from of brussels and she talked about how an important decision was made for our country and so far this was all the news for this time, the next issue is waiting for you in less than an hour, we are working so that you will be the first to

the european union for the fourth year, and ukraine can expect the same will become a member ofopean union if it carries out the necessary reforms and it will, of course, depend on the country, but this path will be long and sometimes painful. maybe there will be some disappointments, and not everything will happen as quickly as you want, but in the end ukraine will become a full member of the family of member countries of the european union, and you are right that today we live in times of joy, we are all in this connection, but also in times of pain due to losses in the war, but we know that ukraine shares european values, it is a european country and it unceasingly supports what the 27 current member states of the european union have adopted, i am full of hope, thank you, thank you very much, mr. ambassador and of course, now moldova has also received the same status as a candidate country for membership in the european union, now i would like to give the floor to our wonderful friend damon wilson, it is a great honor for us thank you very much for joining us. the topic we di

because the conclusion of the european commission is a separate track, it is a separate direction, and the unity of the member states of the european union in matters of granting ukrainetus of a candidate for joining the european community is a little different track and it is very good that they will join 23 into one common track and it will be a positive decision in favor of ukraine. it is now clear that the conclusion of the european commission is 99.9% ready, the wording is being finalized because the correct wording is very important for the european bureaucracy, that is, they are fully they prepared their conclusion , they prepared a recommendation, this conclusion is called komyshin avi, and it was ready a few weeks ago, and now it is precisely because of the ongoing political consultations and consultations regarding what exactly to write in this key 2-3 paragraphs of the wording, what exactly does the european commission recommend? here i really hope that today well, if for today, then tomorrow the day after tomorrow, at least until monday, that's for sure and the conclusion of the european commission will be made public and there will be a clear positive rec

union , that i can hardly imagine how ukraine's accession to the european union, because there are very strict requirements. and the ukrainian economy is in a deplorable state. apparently, there is some kind ofpecial program. uh, preferential program for ukraine well, what is happening with this country, of course, causes very sad associations. moreover, we remember in soviet times ukraine was the breadbasket of the soviet union , industrially developed and, in the end, a supplier. in the end, all the former soviet leaders left ukraine, we remember this well, therefore, unfortunately, times are changing, what we have now is new reality, which i spoke about, so only returning to your question about the european union, but such a decision was made to help ukraine join. indeed, as the president of the russian federation correctly says, this is an economic union, if he considers the presence of ukraine in its ranks in this economic organization possible, then, of course, uh, should this be taken as a reality? thank you, i already wrote publicly . over the past decade, they have been squandered in ukraine, of course. what was that created in the previous decade. here are the main industries. uh,

politicians listen to their citizens, we saw from our channels of all european countries that the majority of citizens of the european union support ukraine'sh decisions if it is a necessary decision in their favor as the european union and in and such public opinion in in hungary, the majority also believes that ukraine should join the eu, it is possible that many researchers will jump in, but the majority of hungarians support ukraine's path to the european union, and we see that the problem is that this is a political decision, we also see that they also do not respond, maybe they are not members of the european union, but we can see that in georgia, the majority of citizens strongly support ukraine, but the government still has a different attitude, so it is very important that we, as a civil society, constantly insist on politicians so that they listen to their citizens and that you , unlike ukrainian communities in the world, also worked with the civil society of these countries to convince them why this is important in your opinion , if ukraine does receive the status of a candidate for eu membership on june 23, how long will it take

of ukraine, volodymyr zelenskyy , addressed the audience who believes in the european future of georgia and promised that ukraine will help the georgian people on this path with billions of european aid, the european union will allocate a new package of macro-financial support for ukraine this was announced by the prime minister of poland , meteo shmurowiecki. according to him, in the near future, the european commission will approve the documents and inform about the final allocation of funds. they will be transferred to the accounts of ukraine in several tranches. we are talking about a long -term loan at low interest rates. payments are not officially reported, according to the prime minister of poland, such support from the eu will primarily help kyiv stabilize the economic situation, approved the confiscation of russian assets parliament of canada this bill was proposed by prime minister justin trudeau, if the document was expanded to 450 pages, it refers to a number of measures, including a two-year ban on the purchase of housing by foreign citizens, as well as the right to confiscate and sell assets of those responsible for russia's invasion of ukraine. the head of the office of the president of

the case of ukraine and seven blocks of conditions, only after these conditions are fulfilled by a certain period, it will be possible to start talks on ukraine's accession to the european union negotiations on ukraine's accession to the european union if these conditions are not fulfilled within a certain time, ukraine will be forced to get rid of this status as i am the republic of moldova, i will say right away that i do not really believe that ukraine will get rid of the status of a candidate member of the european union, so there is no other way out than to limit this we did not have the condition for candidate status. because a large number of member states of the european union asked the european commission an absolutely valid question. how, in principle, can candidate status be granted to member states of the post-soviet space if they do not meet the requirements that were put forward to other countries? candidates, what does the candidate status look like for the member states of the european union in principle. they first fulfill these conditions, which are nominated by the commission, then they receive the candidate status and later on no one can deprive them, howe

, we will talk about the prospects of ukraine becoming a part of the european unionow, maria mezyntseva is the deputy head of the committee on integration of ukraine with the european union. greetings, mr. maria. we sincerely congratulate you on this week. one of the most decisive for ukraine. the president announced this on the 23rd-24th. met and talked with everyone. but could there still be some black swans, some surprises for ukraine on the 23rd-24th? i think that this decision will be a surprise, but a good surprise, so many did not have any hope that the state of ukraine during full-scale war, the aggression of the russian federation against us will generally be able to function as a full-fledged state with an active parliament that votes important laws almost every week with the government and is headed by a president who united us all, including the european integration agenda, when the european commission saw how quickly this government eu how quickly we were able to uh hmm send answers to very complex very technical questions i think in many countries skept

of the european council. i will personally speak, like germany, for a positive decision regarding the status of ukraine as a candidate for membership in the european union. italy wants to see ukraine as part of the european union, this means that it will definitely support ukraine in candidate status and in the future upon joining the european union , ukraine's path to the eu involves deep reforms , commitment to european values, i.e. its own actions we want to confirm that ukraine is a part of the european family in the face of war, we europeans absolutely fully understand how fragile the peace of europe has become today, the peace that was restored with hard efforts after the second world war . the leaders of france, germany, italy and romania were characterized by the president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyi in his video address. according to him, our country felt support immediately of the four powerful european states, in particular the support of the movement towards the eu, the head of state also noted that it was important for him to hear from the leaders and that the end of the war and peace for ukraine should be exactly as ukraine sees them, a

the status of a candidate for the eu, the politician passionately supports accession of ukraine to the european union and does not hide it, uses every opportunity to publicly declare it ukraine ukraine belongs to the european family i believe that the acceptance of ukraine into the european union is not only our strategic interest, but also our moral duty in kyiv visit before the historic for ukraine, that is where the eu is. on june 23, the leaders of the eu countries will decide whether to grant our country the status of a candidate for joining the european union with president volodymyr zelenskyi, the politician spoke about further steps that the ukrainian government needs to do to strengthen the rule of law and the fight against corruption. i want you to understand me correctly. ukraine is currently at war and you are now focusing all your efforts and all our support is going to overcome this terrible war and we want to see what with the help of reconstruction will be how we will move forward in the future. for example, you have done a lot to ensure the rule of law. it is also necessary to furthe

according to reports world media, the conclusion of the european commission on ukraine's application for the status of a candidate for membership of the european union and the visit of the head of the european commission a week before such an important event, this is undoubtedly extremely positive news. plant von der leyen held talks with volodymyr zelenskyi , the president of ukraine, and says that these talks will allow to finalize the assessment of ukraine's application for eu membership by the end of next week , what do you think the conclusion of the europeans will depend on and what should we expect well, i hope that this special situation will allow it to get the status of a candidate for membership of the european union, it just appeared there, but the bloomberg agency while we were here on the air that the commission will recommend granting ukraine the status of a candidate, but with certain conditions, these conditions for strengthening supremacy will be written there the right to strengthen the fight against corruption. i think that the rule of law will be necessary. it is also necessary to keep in mind the freedom of speech, preservation

leaders of the european union still decide to grant such a status, i can assure you that all these celebrations of the association agreement, then the associations of the european union of ukrainebe forgotten, because new celebrations are overshadowed. that's how they live from the fight - from the straight line and the straight line. excuse me. i involuntarily considered that for studio talk time. three times we turned to quotations from russian literature . ilfa petrov, crossword puzzler. sinitsky chicks frown. e in ukraine this week finally crossed out all e, russian literature and school programs. and it seems to me, probably, in order to avoid these illusions, there were no allusions. or rather , to not have this cultural environment. although that's all that is happening today in ukraine as in my opinion. well, it's just that, well, almost a plot from the immortal classics. and of course from gogol, because this is a visit three officials with a bribe as a candidate for the european union means further frights, and this young man whose speech is abrupt, with dust without a king in his head, uh, these are, of course, whips and words fly out of his mouth from his mouth. uh,

that is, the european countries of the european union did not agree among themselves. as for ukraine and moldova , they reached a consensus on extremely complex issues, of course. this instills in them a huge amount of faith in their ability to move europe forward, and it is extremely cool that we, uh, our generation is a part of this process today ukraine became stronger today the european union became stronger but the main thing is that today europe became stronger thank you very much this was dmytro kuleba minister of foreign affairs of ukraine and we also congratulate him the fact that ukraine has finally received this status as a candidate member of the eu is an important achievement and volodymyr zelenskyi addressed the participants of the eu summit by the way after granting ukraine the status of a candidate for membership and let's listen to his speech we want to confirm that we support you and the assortment of political i very powerful and we would like to hear you and hear your message and you should know that we have made this historic decision thank you very much charles