degree project yevgeniy bliznyuk and the director of the 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

, this moment is important because the european union is the countries of the european union . of the european union, but not the countries of the european continent, but nevertheless, there are problems with turkey related to political processes, but at the same time, we must not forget that turkey is, relatively speaking, half of as a member of the european union, it entered the common market. it implements a common foreign economic policy, primarily in industrial goods, and regulates trade in agricultural products. therefore, in this sense, this country is, i would say, a plus candidate. that is, it is largely integrated in the common european market, but with is not yet a full-fledged member of the european union. well, there are questions about the extent to which it is a democratic country . as far as i understand, there are also questions about well, for example , the independence of the central bank of turkey where erdoğan directly affects the discount rate, which has already led to an increase in inflation in this country to more than 70% in annual terms, that's right, i woul

, unfortunately we did not become a member of the european union if we were a member of the europeansay our refugees who are on the territory of any european country let's say poland yes. they are there in e-e , they can be there until the end of 2024 , at the same time, they cannot leave for other member states of the european union if their 90-day stay in the eu territory ends even if it is the eu of poland and uh, normally they cannot have a job in other countries of the european union where they did not ask for protection . and if they ask for protection in other countries of the european union, they can no longer ask for a job in a neighboring country, and i am sorry for that at all not the membership of the european union in fact or it in fact it is actually like this and that is the life of our citizens on the territory of the countries in relation to the european union neighboring countries this is life with the rights of refugees, there is no need to deceive yourself, it is so very conditional rights, if we were members of the european union, our citizens would feel at home

and the european union is not a defense union there and so on, but in real life, well, let's say it here for the european union poses such a challenge that the european court, as it was created at one time, as a community that must prevent a new war, which is the second world war, as well as the communities of coal and steel, and so on, yes, that is, now the european union is actually also undergoing an additional test, as far as it is because of a more active solidarity position with ukraine can help this new war to end on the other side, but i would say something like this well , you and i understand that there is a difference between the concept of, for example, not to let ukraine lose like this and victory in ukraine that is, we see that, in principle, it is a part of the countries of the european union. she very often leads a discussion to allow ukraine to lose, that is, it is more likely that they are ready to provide weapons, but very often it is rather a minimum. well, i will just remind you that our l

this moment, because it is important, because the european union is the countries of the european union, but not the countries of the european union. but nevertheless, there are problems with turkey related to political processes, but at the same time, we must not forget that turkey is already a member of the european union, relatively speaking, for half of it, it was on the common market. i would say that it is a plus candidate. that is, it is largely integrated into the common european market, but at the same time it is not yet a full-fledged member of the european union. well, there are questions about how democratic a country it is. as far as i understand, there are questions about, for example , the independence of the central bank of turkey, where erdoğan directly affects the discount rate, which has already led to an increase in inflation in this country to more than 70% annually. correct, i would just like to say that when we talk about the entry criteria in principle, there are three criteria that a country must satisfy in order to be part of the european union. the first crite

botek's grandfather also went through the european union during his speech. aid that in europe now the pseudo-unity of the nuclear power plant has finally lost its political sovereignty, because all the decisions of the european political elite are made as their masters tell them, and it is the europeans who are suffering from these decisions. there was a speech, uh, no one expected anything new from him. that 's what everyone thought. that's how it was. and at the end, oops, how unexpected. that's how i want to uh, start this information. in russia, an ex-leader was found dead. russian armament of alexei ogaryev, according to local media, the body of a 65-year-old man was found in his own home in the suburbs of moscow, according to preliminary information , russian investigators found no traces of violent death. well, you could have thought of something else, then they will say that it was obviously a heart attack. this death, some rather strange person led the disarmament and died after it turned out that russian weapons are far from what they always talked

authoritarian russia is the biggest threat to peace and stability in the entire european continent , including in the southern countries of the european unionrt of the war, we saw a very bright change in public opinion. in many large countries of the european union, in france, in germany, in italy, where people with a big word, eh, support the armament of ukraine and the sanctions against russia and the membership of ukraine. because the citizens understand very simply that only the success of ukraine, both in the war and the establishment of ukraine as members of the european union, can bring back europe and the prospects of a longer-term peace because the success of ukraine it can become a very strong factor that will change and help transform russia itself, the field of a democratic country, i have a short question, what do you think , would ukraine have received the status of a candidate for eu members if not for this ? some kind of gift for er sick and suffering ukrainians and because in europe they began to understand their mistakes, yes, which may have led to this war, that is why politics is returning to europe and this is done prec

the european council will be held. this is the highest political body of the european union, to which the heads of state and government of all eu members belong. at this meeting , the issue of granting ukraine the status will be discussed. e.e. candidate for joining the european union, this issue is of course of fundamental importance for ukraine and this goal is very difficult, will ukraine receive the status of a candidate for membership in the european union in june, e.e. who supports ukraine, which forces, for what reasons, are cautious about accelerated integration. what homework should ukraine do and, in principle, how do we see our immediate and medium-term prospects in relations with the european union? we will discuss these issues today with our respected participants and guests of ivanka klymkostinzavdze very, very coolly said once that the european integration of ukraine has a female face and it is indeed so and it is a great honor and pleasure for me to introduce our participants, first of all ms. olena kondratyuk, deputy speaker of the verkhovna rada thank you for your knew olha stefanyshyn , deputy prime

parts why 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 unioners of granting ukraine the status 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 the

into the european union of the 21st century with of the state where it is now. uropean union is actually the 20th century with the procedures of the 20th century and the adoption of ukraine - this is a chance for them and a very big chance and profit and in the end a chance to become a geopolitical player. the future is the same, and as a chance for us to reboot into the future, one of the steps to this reboot happened or ukraine took the day when the european commission made a decision on the possible candidacy of ukraine in the union, this decision to introduce a visa regime with the russian federation at the same time as this arises completely a logical question, if we introduce visas for russians, why don't we introduce visas for belarusians, because ukraine actually understands that belarus is a base for russian saboteurs for the russian troops and for russians in general, why don’t we see this whole picture and only make fragmentary decisions on visas for russians ? i don’t have an answer . said about this. perhaps you remember. i always advocated a biometr

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 union itself. and for this it will be very important to establish and create a new format that the french president has already called the european political community, such countries as ukraine, georgia and moldova

they will also work on this, there is such a banal question now, every country - a member of the european union has the right to have its own commissioner of the european commission, this leads to what is constantly happening there functional segmentation to the detriment of efficiency, but for the sake of taking into account everyone's interests, that's why there is a new question. if there are new members, the principle of formation of the european commission needs to be changed. there are a lot of such things in the european union, a wonderful institution of milk especially today, but they admit that by their own admission they need to implement a lot of important reforms in order to function effectively in the future. by the way, we just spoke with the member of the european parliament andrus kubylus . a new impetus, a new spirit, so to speak, which leads to the improvement of all these institutions, i wanted to ask an important thing, and i spoke with mr. klubi lis about this , whether fatigue is felt now on the subject of ukraine in europe, because several months of the war have already p

into the european union of the 21st century from the state in which it is now. uropean union is actually the 20th century with the procedures of the 20th century and in ukraine - this is a chance for them and a very big chance and profit and ultimately a chance to become a geopolitical player . the day when the european commission made a decision on the possible candidacy of ukraine to the union, this decision on the introduction of a visa regime with the russian federation, at the same time as this, a completely logical question arises, if we introduce visas for russians, then why do we not introduce visas for belarusians, because ukraine actually understands that belarus is a base for russian saboteurs. for russian troops and for russians in general, why don't we see this picture in full? and we only make fragmentary decisions on visas for russians. i have no answer. the visa regime from russia, let's be honest, and it should have been introduced much earlier and i talked about it. perhaps you remember that i always advocated a biometric visa regime with russia

ukraine's retention of the status of a member of the european union, a candidate for a member of the union. yes, i think that this is a very important strategic decision for ukraine, including that it is important for many states that declared their intentions to join the european union, but we understand that the european bureaucracy of the european countries, first of all, the founders of the european union, the countries of western europe, they proceed from the necessity of making such decisions , the analysis is carried out in a sufficiently long-term perspective, this is still not the stage when it was 2000 and these issues were the beginning of two when these proposals for joining the european union and the countries of the former socialist camp were resolved much faster, but of course i think that this is a certain degree and a test for the european union to what extent it is able to react to the critical crisis situation that arose in connection with the war with russia with the support of the lukashenko regime in relation to ukraine, i am convinced that both ukraine and the

is the member states of the member states, because the european uniont exist separately from the member states, so when it comes to the european union, 116% is our share of contributions to the financing of the european union . of the union is just covered by france and, in addition, on a bilateral basis. we also provide financial assistance to ukraine in the amount of 300 million euros of direct direct assistance, so we are talking about different levels and different directions of such support and the fact that we stand we firmly support it together with ukraine, it helps ukraine to defend itself and there is one more point that i would like to dwell on, which is what happened yesterday, an absolutely incredible event, which no one could have expected a few months ago, in four months , as a european union of 27 states, we were able to members to support a single decision on granting this status to ukraine and ukraine absolutely deserves such support and such sympathy from the european union, but simply if you think about it, this step is extremely inc

countries to grant ukraine the status of a candidate member of the european union we are talking about our european integration aspirations and aspirations, we cannot but mention russia here, because we remember how in 2013 viktor yanukovych and the government of mykolayev azarov refused european integration in as a result of the emergence of euromaidan, then the revolution of dignity, as a result, we received associate membership, and in principle, what russia piskov is saying today suggests that we should pay more attention to the european union, because there is a discussion in europe about strengthening the defense component of the european union, military defense and security in the russian ministry of foreign affairs, they say that the latest events affecting the candidacy of ukraine and moldova are machinations and combinations of a provocative and destructive nature at the same time, putin says that it is a sovereign decision of the country to join economic associations or not, it is the business of economic associations to receive new countries or not, he

of the european union. very much appreciate serbia's courageous stand in this regard. uh, personally president aleksandar vučić, who emphasizes that he will not engage in anti-russian activities, but the european union wants exactly this. he wants exactly that, uh, all candidates take on obligations of a russophobic nature, but the situation has certainly shown what it's worth. membership of montenegro and north macedonia in north atlantic alliance and why does nato need such countries, they need it solely to , uh, punish russia in order to expand the anti-russian foothold in europe and create, uh, threats and create mechanisms, as i said, containment is not at all something, but what require article ten of the washington treaty on the establishment of the north atlantic alliance , which, as we quoted not so long ago, but assumes that the new members. first, they must meet the criteria. and secondly, the most most importantly, they should bring added value to the alliance in terms of strengthening the secur

this is actually another intermediate step and the decision of the european council of the leaders of the european unionich is also supposed to meet in the coming days which took place a week ago, the deputies are talking about the fact that there are many issues for ukraine that will have to be resolved, perhaps there is information on how it was possible , so to speak, to oil orban, the hungarian prime minister. so we expected that hungary would start actively pushing sneakers, our wheels are european integration , but no, orban somehow decided to come to an agreement. so we offered him something for mr. viktor, what about you, or mrs. yulia, if you have information, after that, i will give you the facts. i will tell you what others have told me. i think that hungary is now it sometimes looks like the fifth wheel in the wagon of the european union, and realizing that hungary is now dependent on the european union in terms of financing, it does not dare to take such drastic steps considering that now the whole the european union has just united around the idea of ​​such a symbolic and initial idea of ​

fact that the management of migration and migration flows is one of the main problems facing the european union today and we cannot adopt such a policy due to the lack of unanimity, so i believe that we should think very seriously about the possibility that would allow the european union to move forward in certain sectors without such unanimity, if certain countries do not want to participate in certain things, they can simply be removed. by the way, this is exactly what we did with the schengen area, which allows free the movement of people within the european union some member states did not want to participate in this so they did not take part the same was with the euro area you know that some countries did not accept the euro as our single common currency and that is why they continue to use their own currency i am convinced that this is exactly what we should adopt , we should decide that if some member states do not want to deepen our european integration, they can simply be removed, they can participate in the eu single market, they can participate in some quarrels, but not in others, fo

the european union is the driving force of the european continent. this it's great that we are part of this process with you, our generation. today ukraine has become stronger. today the european union has become stronger, but the main thing is that today europe has become stronger. i believe that every ukrainian was served a glass of champagne. look, small candidate, we got a candidate. i congratulate you decision made want to scream jump. i am extremely happy at the historical moment, the ukrainian flag is already raised near the european parliament. i congratulate you all, i congratulate all of you on an unconditionally historic event, the presentation to us this status - that's for sure. this is definitely a blunder with putin and a demonstration of the unity and determination of europe the status of an eu candidate in ukraine, although further, has no practical meaning at all, if we analyze other stories of countries that have received the status of an eu candidate, they have not received anything good so far. although for decades they have been

, with this historic decision, the european union sends a powerfulhat the ukrainian people are part of the european family of nations, the future of ukraine in to the european union, ukraine and the eu continue to stand together in defense of peace, boldly everywhere, thank you , we will transport, we will pass, we will win, whatever you are, news together, we are strong in camouflage, known as counters, modest, silent, but in each of them a story is screaming that is worth a thousand books, seriously wounded in intelligence dmytro took two days to get to he drank himself into the water from the swamp, lost consciousness again and again, but got up and walked on. torn by shrapnel and bullets in the battle, sashko trudged for 11 hours, but waited for the evacuation because he had cossack courage and an indomitable will heroes should not be met by everyday life, our love and attention, our gratitude and respect heal their souls, remind them of what they gave their lives for. so join the all-ukrainian flash mob of thanks to the defenders and defenders o

rationality, in fact, in this case, it was not a visit to the european union. it was a visit by the leaders of the states, which usually have a decisive influence on the position of the european union, and in this case they are much more free in formulating the formulation of their approaches to certain political issues and they are elected by the people of their countries and have sufficiently wide powers. at the very least, you can talk about a frenchman or a german. well, the prime minister of italy is exactly the same, that is, i think they were ready for that to decide in our favor what they ultimately decided but finally what is called already to ironed out what they probably had doubts when they saw what they saw during the visits to to to everything they saw with their own eyes i at all always er in my experience means based on it i believe that not taking into account the emotional component of those who make decisions on behalf of the state is a huge mistake because sometimes it is emotion that prevents us from deciding what was rational well, we see o

today in brussels , the historic summit of the european union is taking place. the 27 member countries of the european union have to give an answer to whether it receives candidate status. ukraine and moldova, meanwhile, the russians continue their offensive on severodonetsk and lysychansk, the enemy is also attacking mykolaiv, odesa, sumy oblast , dnipropetrovsk oblast , shelling of populated areas of ukraine is underway in almost all southern and eastern regions, while the occupiers continue to lose strength and live equipment , starting from february 24, the enemy has already lost in ukraine has almost 34,000 people, 15 tanks, 3,632 armored fighting vehicles , 756 artillery systems, 238 rocket launchers, 99 anti-aircraft weapons of defense 216 aircraft 183 helicopters 2548 units of automotive equipment 14 ships boats - 130 cruise missiles - 620 drones 61 units of special equipment today about ukraine in the european union as well as the prospects of ukraine's integration into the north atlantic alliance and russia's conflict with lithuania let's talk with our

you are right. at that moment, the european union did not react properly. ou already said in 2014, after the russian aggression in crimea and in the luhansk and donetsk regions, the european union introduced sanctions , then decided to stop holding certain meetings at the ministerial level, then also decided to exclude russia from the g8 and did several things with which they wanted to convince russia that aggression against ukraine was unacceptable, but this was not enough, so a number of european political leaders who continued to conduct dialogue with putin must have convinced him that he could continue his aggression against such countries as ukraine, moldova, georgia, that is why i believe that at that time we had the opportunity to show more confidence and strength towards putin and then we could make him pay the highest price for this aggression to explain to such politicians that it is impossible to conduct a dialogue with a country that does not respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of its neighbors, so i completely agree with you that t

hysteria in the kremlin, our country received the status of a candidate for joining the european union and the decision was unanimously supported by all the leaders of the european union during right here in brussels on june 23, mrs. ivanna, you were at the forefront of the european integration process of our country during all the years after the revolution of dignity. what does this mean for you day and this decision of the european council , i am very happy because we received this status, that the european union showed value and did not manage to say no to ukraine at this stage and it is fundamentally important for us because this signal is also for our society, which supports this path of development and the opportunity to have a legally fixed future as an opportunity for us to have this european perspective, of course it hurts to the point of tears that we are now on this in this line for the last four months after the application was submitted with the beginning of a full-scale, full- scale invasion of russia into ukraine, and we ran this c- this piece of e-e sprint, of course,

eh, is there still space in the european union for our dialogue with the europeans? talk a lot about the fact that the st. petersburg international economic forums are a discussion and dialogue platform , an opportunity to speak directly in europe . none of the european union did not come. well, do not count me. you are ours. and i know, of course, this is a characteristic confirmation. although i will remind you that, for example, in the sixteenth year he came here, and the chairman of the then european commission, jean-claude juncker, and he had long lengthy negotiations with our president. he spoke at the plenary session. that is, while it was already after 2014, when we already had freezes, which before that were held twice a year and, uh, of various kinds, here are sectoral ideologies, but nevertheless, what arose space for dialogue. now it is, well, almost closed. naturally. i have my employees have some episodic contacts and that. in general with us. apparently, they are afraid to maintain a dialogue. for some reason, i’m not even talking about the fact that in

part of the european family of nations the future of ukraine in to the european union, ukraine and theinue to stand together in defense of peace. ukraine is incredibly grateful to you and to the european family. thank you. thank you . taras. cossacks after the october coup, the unr army led by peter bolbochan drove the bolsheviks out of the city." today, pavlograd is under fire, but it continues to help everyone who needs it because it is a pavlograd citizen it is well remembered that it was easier to drive the occupiers in a group pavlograd undefeated by the war in ukraine all the stadiums fell silent russian shelling broke the silence russian rockets and russian phosphorous bombs exploded you who broke the screams of ukrainian women and the tears of ukrainian children most of the russian athletes fell silent this silence continues to kill ukrainians ukrainian stadiums fell silent , however, we sportsmen of the whole world should not be silent, calls on everyone to support the boycott of russian national and team athletes while the war continues in to ukraine, support ukraine on the s

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

if the european union will not reach an agreement on the future of european ukraine, what willthe reaction of the various european unions to such a political decision, and will the european union as a result end up facing the threat of further stagnation, and in the future, collapse? well, that's why i started talking the words that we today, well , the president of ukraine zelensky spoke. he said that we will not agree to any surrogates, well, you understand the point, we do not need to offer any alternatives to the european union, but the problem is that the european union can really turn itself into such surrogates. well, when, for example, the same, as i already said, the higher countries, e. the opinion is not taken into account enough what is it that their interests are neglected here yes what is there some old europe well, i have lost a little sense of reality, i want to live in some kind of comfortable past, which today no longer exists and maybe on european. well, in this european continent , some different blocs may once again form . both military-political and econom

so, in 2012, a decision was made to join the croatia has not yet joined the european union. the issue of accession must be approved by all the parliaments of the member states of the european union . ratification must take place. thus, there may be delays at this stage as well, and eventually 1 in july 2013, croatia became a member of the european union from application to accession . 10 years have passed since application to membership . 9 years have passed . verification of the legislation, three years for negotiations, three years, yes, something, yes, 6 years for negotiations, in fact , and a year for the ratification of agreements, which means that if we optimistically fulfill these conditions in 2023 year, there will be no real fears among our neighboring countries about the start of the negotiation process, and we will start them a year before there will be fears in 2024 , then in the most optimistic version we will finish this negotiation process sometime in 2031-32, the year for ratification in 2030 in 2033 , we will become a member of the european union , that is, a

of putin is the biggest storm for peace and stability in the entire european continent , including in the southern countries of the european uniono after the start of the war, we saw a very bright change in public dress. this voice supports both the armament of ukraine and the sanctions for russia and the ministry of ukraine up plus because citizens understand very simply the success of ukraine both as a war and in the establishment of ukraine and its members of the european union may just return eh to europe and the prospects for a longer temporary peace because the success of ukraine can become a very strong factor that will change and help transform russia itself into a democratic country. eu members, if not for this bloody terrible war, ukraine gets this status not because it is some kind of gift for the struggling and suffering ukraine but because europe has begun to understand its mistakes yes the ones that may have led to this war are therefore returning to europe for a politician and this is an initiative of ukraine with you. thank you very much. this was fandreus fobilius , a member of the european parliament. we are di

what can we actually do and how much time can it take for us to meet these requirements of the european union regarding the transformation of ukraine into a full-fledged european state ? that the decision that i am convinced will be made in brussels today and tomorrow is the result of the path that ukraine continued in 2014 and this is the will of the ukrainian people, and that we have received or will receive not just a status but a status with remarks is unfortunately a result the work of today's government, because if you are not soldiers of the armed forces of ukraine, if it were not for the position of ukrainians in resisting moscow's aggression and protecting values, then i am convinced that the question of candidacies would be in great doubt, and the fact that today's authorities have put fuses is precisely the result of what the west wants in this way, to stimulate today's government to continue reforms and, in addition to anti-corruption, which reforms of constitutional legislation, in particular, and the constitution of the courts, i would add two more very large areas to which the

ihor i congratulate that it is generally possible to do without conditions from the european commission from the european uniony want to say that, in principle, this does not contradict the practice of the european union, and in many cases, indeed, the european union can put forward conditions that relate to the very fact of acquiring candidate status, and certain conditions can be put forward in order to start negotiations on the acquisition of membership of the european union already after obtaining the status of a candidate. the european union is interested in the fact that, after talking about uh, all our problems, so to speak, that we are facing today, we still returned to the original things, the original things are political reforms in ukraine, without which it is very difficult to move forward, well, in us, after all, the economic program is why we let's try to analyze from an economic point of view what the european union offers well, we will not discuss it now there is one condition regarding changes to the laws on national minorities, it seems to me that there is nothing economic here, but for examp

when can we get the status of a candidate for joining the european union? rding to previous reports from the european mass media , it seems that all 27 member states of the european union have agreed to tell us so. your assessments of our prospects for obtaining this status a-a in my assessments completely coincide with your information that, in principle, a consensus has been reached a-a on the issue of granting ukraine the status of a candidate a-a on membership in the european union, and i think that we will not see any special surprises, since there is already a consensus among these member states of the european union. well, we did not get this status easily, agree. well, this status was given to us with blood. by the way, blood. yu and with great sacrifices and my husband can thanks to unfortunately for such a process, the european union could not not give us this status. that is why they made an exception for us in this case or not, definitely because as you, if not, you are not in the agreement on association not in the previous ones in ours agreemen

poland, and even now and in the future, even without a collective decision of the european corridor, the policy of the european union has allocated a lot of funds for this transition, approximately 300 billion dollars. that is, it is not just that they turned off the gas from russia and then their enterprise stopped completely. no, they continue to work at the expense of lg terminals at the expense of statutory gas. the technique of the example is the same algeria . well, of course, the technologies there are on anti-carbonization , so to speak, and on such a smooth transition, which i have long emphasized and reminded the established european policies, therefore i am deeply convinced that ukraine volodymyr zelenskyi on andriy yermak, the yarmak mcfall group, which deals with the sanctions policy, and all these moments in close cooperation with our european and global partners, they will convey all the positions, and even at the end, or well, one sentence on this issue is a very important aspect of what exactly this mk group is working on mcfaul and why these sanctions of the sixth package were, let's say, hellish a

putin that ukraine is part of the european family. or then what is the point of the activity of the organization in terms of defending those values ​​which the european unionelf offers and which ukraine took by signing the actual agreement with the european union and implementing a number of legislation in order to bring our national legislation closer to the standards of the european union , so it seems to me that we as a country can consider any political relations there, but for the european union today there is only one way - to provide ukraine in june the official status of a candidate for full membership speaks of the fact that ukraine deserved this candidacy, but on the other hand, there is a certain list of requirements for our country that we should implement in all these eight years since we are conducting a close dialogue with the european union. in addition , analyzing all that analytics, the biggest concerns about our state concern judicial justice, the issue of judicial reform under martial law, we understand that a full-fledged judicial reform is impossible or impossible , that is, with changes to the constitution and the like it is possible

it was developed in the european e, the union in the european commission, but what if the tots did, ofrse, they simply filled it with specific content. and if his passenger transit well, at the very least, he, uh, works there with certain restrictions, then railway and land freight for transportation. here are some of the goods. they decided to hit him and as you can see they did this is absolutely not something that is incorrect, but they did it absolutely. so evalutaristically, perhaps, in a day from friday to saturday? well, of course, this cannot be done according to many documents, if the convention is railway, how railway workers should act according to more than one, er, these rules, including their own european union rules. this is incorrect. you can't do that. but you see, when there is such a conversation, then here it is about the rules. uh, they remember last, unless these are the rules that, in fact, he himself the european union is trying to impose on other countries. but where do they say that you need to live according to the developed or the rules? ah, the rest is a co

was forced to reduce its export opportunities, to be more precise. on the supply of gas to the european unionhe accident is quite strange, but if there are no other reasons, then in principle the united states will not be able to cover all the needs of the european union in liquefied gas and gases in general, but in one way or another, european countries will be able to contribute the union has now actively taken up the issue of revising some decisions, particularly at the national level , regarding, for example, the closing of a number of coal-fired power plants. now, precisely at the national level, in countries and not only in germany, but primarily in germany, a decision has been made to slow down, on the contrary, to start even those coal-fired power units that were already turned off and were not used. the netherlands, for example , which wanted to practically end gas production at the groningen field this year. the famous and legendary field, thanks to which europe received you for 60 years, it is exhausted, of course, but it still has certain resources. and right now, the question of

just for candidacy to the european union, not even for membership, then it turns out that the europeanthese values ​​for which it itself and was created and this and this is the discrediting of the european union will ultimately be its destruction, that is why they cannot but give us the status of a candidate, the members of the european union buch also pushed for this, they always declared that they are for human rights, inhumanism and when they saw the open genocide here well how can they then not support ukraine in acquiring and becoming a member of the european union, now ukraine is the flag of this civilization of those democratic values, but look, let's take a closer look at the procedure itself. that is, this decision of the european commission, it is essentially a preliminary one, so that is, the final political decision will be made at the eu summit on june 24, or it may actually happen that the eu itself will make a decision that will differ from the position of the european commission, and the new approval of the collegium. why, why, the meeting has now taken place. yes, the

the question of accession must be approved by all the parliaments of the member states of the european union . ratification thus, even at this stage, there may be delays, well, in the end, on july 1, 2013, croatia became a member of the european union from application to accession. 10 years have passed since application to membership. 9 years have passed. we still have conditional candidacy because in order to even start the possibility of negotiations, we need to fulfill the conditions about which i said, so this is the most optimistic option, a year for the review of legislation, three years for negotiations, three years, so here is something a little for negotiations, in fact, and a year for the ratification of agreements, so if we are optimistic in order to fulfill these conditions, in 2023 there will be no real fears among our neighboring countries about the start of the negotiation process and we will start them . in 2030, in 2033, we will become a member of the european union, that is, after 10 years, we will have something to consider, and not in the optimistic version, in 2038, if w

candidate status only after fulfilling certain conditions decided at the european commission, the correspondent of radio svoboda in the european union 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 status of a candidate for membership of the european union. ukrainians are now shedding blood not only for the future of their country, but also for europe and its values here they understand it and know that ukrainians are ready to die for the european perspective, so they want them to live together with europe, united by the european dream, this is a quote the president of the european commission at the same

institutional requirement, so to speak, that every year, and sometimes even twice a year, the european commission of the european union moves on the path to membership, we will open appropriate sections of the european union, where we will clearly implement what is written there, and therefore, by the way, there is no time frame when we will or if we will implement these seven points, then what will happen in parallel and it is simply stated that here we have questions , look, the european union has questions for us in these areas and we must fulfill them. i think that no one doubts that we must in any case complete these reforms that are mentioned in these same thank you mr. volodymyr , it’s extraordinary, it’s still really important what you’re talking about, that’s homework, yes, if it doesn’t take away from us the status of a candidate, that is, it will be in any case if we hear a positive decision from tomorrow the council of europe, and here we see an extraordinary number of exactly such postures in the signals. this status will already be fixed for ukraine, but at the same time we will have to do our homework.

france and germany have long claimed to be the leaders of the european union. in fact, they are recognized as such leaders, but in recent months this leadership has faltered due to the fact that the central european states are worried about the slow reaction of france and germany to the development of events in on the immediate border of the european union, such concern, such fear, even er, shows that they understand that in the event that russia commits some crimes against the state, which are included in the list of lithuania, estonia, poland, the reaction could also be very slow, and so the leaders of france and germany first of all needed to restore their leadership, restore the confidence of the states of central and eastern europe that the european union is one and berlin and paris are not will block some decisions when this decision will concern the interests of the central-eastern european states, that's exactly why i assume that scholtz and macron came after a trip to romania, that's exactly why they the president of romania klaus iohannis joined. by th

go through all the transformation and all the complex reforms in order to become a member of the european unionieve that today the ball is completely in the half of the field of the european countries, after all. this is their task, and if you open the kitchen a little, and in general, how are decisions made, then we must understand with you that even now, when there is a discussion at the level of the european commission regarding a what will be its recommender what will be its recommendation they are simultaneously looking at how potentially it will be possible to get full agreement a-a at the negotiating table on june 23 and 24 from the member states, therefore these are interdependent classes and therefore it is so important that everyone today are working to achieve this goal. thank you very much. i have two difficult questions. i myself come back to them more than once, and this is more of a reflection, er, and a farm, er, the first question that has already been asked, if the european council makes a decision, what will it sound like? this is the so-called creativity, they say. let 's be

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

that the european council goes against the opinion of the european commission, because all the members of the european unionare represented in this european commission er, this position is taken by the capitals , and it definitely cannot be such that the decision is different, and at the same time, we must understand that this status is given to us with certain, well, let's say so, prerequisites, and we will not be able to start tomorrow accession negotiations because first we will have to fulfill those uh-uh points which uh-uh which will accompany the final decision of the european council, although i will tell you frankly when i read them , for some reason i felt uh-huh and funny and sad at the same time, well, it's funny because they are actually funny, in the sense that we need them. this is not our fee for the euro, what is the european union telling us ? accession negotiations well so i think that uh this should all be resolved within the next well six months at the most and by the end of the year these things should just be closed then from the beginning of uh next year we can start talking about uh

i would even say to the european union er, regarding how many days they do not want for their energy fact that the russian federation will make fewer supplies of energy resources to the european union. how do you think there is this consensus, er, the villages received their at least at this stage well, i am, like, a politician, a former diplomat, who himself did not negotiate on our accession to the european union, i feel that everything will probably be okay, here we are with your speaker ruslan stefanychuk, they created a large organization similar to united for ukraine, i don’t even know it, and when i saw when one of our members, uh, the current minister of european affairs of france , she wrote, she was about this train, uh, with macron, she wrote her page uh, i read it as lithuanian because it is she spoke in lithuanian, she said there that we have already made mistakes, uh, bucharest and bulgaria, in nato, and we can't make mistakes now. all other countries understand this well, you are now fighting for our european independence , for our ideals, for our principles, we must de

legislation, ukraine will gradually move towards e-e integration with the european union after 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 the 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

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 ver