well, we are going further and just now another people's deputy of ukraine, maria mezyntseva from the servant of the people faction, is joining our broadcast. deputy head of the committee on the integration of ukraine with the eu, head of the delegation of ukraine to paris, maria, my congratulations and welcome the news, it's incredible, we're just in paris, we are greeted by the head of the european integration committee of the national assembly of france right now at the meeting, colleagues from finland, latvia, lithuania, estonia, germany, we are all here in a par, 46 countries, you know, it's like a second birthday, i don't have time to answer. give by sms. indeed, the president surprised us on the fourth day of a full-scale invasion. at that time, we were all puzzled by the decision to submit the application, which in the historical photo was supported by verkhovna rada speaker ruslan stepanchuk and prime minister shmyhal. you know, at that time it was not believed that six months after that we would become a candidate, and after some time let's start official negotiations. none

, will be quite difficult and possibly lengthy, but about the current moment now we will ask maria mezyntsevaople 's deputy of ukraine, deputy chairman of the verkhovna rada committee on integration of ukraine with the european union, chairman of the permanent delegation of ukraine to paria. thank you, mrs. maria, thank you in general to all those people, all those euro-optimists. this is not only about politicians, about officials, but... to all those people of good will who made it possible that we are now, well, i don't want to say celebrate, because we celebrate in war and while working, but this is an extremely important story , hence glory thank you to ukraine, absolutely, glory to the heroes , thank you very much, first of all, why, because my first broadcast about european integration in the 14th year was just on the espresso channel, so i am very grateful to you for that, for what you continue. it's easy to tell about a complicated thing, so we are very much looking forward to several next steps: firstly, the very process of preparing the road map is important for us. road map, that

not about orban, but about other possible obstacles on our way to europe, we will talk with maria mezyntseva people's deputy of ukraine. congratulations, mrs. maria, i wish you good health, i sincerely congratulate you. so our path begins, this is how our path begins, and we actually have to choose now, what path will we take to that europe, will we, or will we create some such system of our own, and will we propose it ourselves, we can do that, we can change in such a way as to fit europe, and europe should fit us, so that we can integrate as much as possible better, or there is an option when we will simply listen to what brussels tells us and just like polite students. do homework, which way will ukraine choose? well, first of all, it's, it 's really two-way, we're going to have communication, we're not going to have, let's say yes, monologue, this is definitely a dialogue, european integration is always a dialogue, without any coercion, that is, no one will tell us, look, dear ukrainians, you have a deadline, and before this deadline , specific bills must be implemented or voted on, this