stephanie decker, al jazeera zagreb, european commission president ursula vaughan de leon, traveled to a border crossing between croatia and slovenia. and hailed the milestone to decrease had joined the shannon area and the euro zone till immense achievements for the youngest member state of the european union and both reached on the very same day. so indeed, this is a day for the history books. earlier we spoke to divulge genetic he's a political analyst incorporation. he says this military move is a good one for equations as the country solidifies as integration into the you. by just putting this nationalistic group oriented people in gray show door that this good cause. the problem decrease losing monitoring, so serenity and that is not a good choice for creation, but really gracious, not a using it's monitors or anything for the last 25 years, at least. so it has a fixed exchange rate for euro. and now we're entering in a euro's own a very it has the opportunity for 3 good issues. one is substance substantial one because the interest rate will be lower and the credit rating will be

urged world leaders at divorce to keep aiding ukraine. diplomatic editor james bay spoke with ursula vaughan de leon. shortly afterwards he started by asking what she thought would happen when the war started. the, i'll hoped that russia would be reasonable and not do with this invasion because we had prepared massive sanctions. and we couldn't imagine that you destroy your own country, russia by doing this invasion. well, it came differently as we know, and i must say the world is really impressed by the courage and at the stamina of the ukrainian people. and they have been amazing, amazing throughout this year. now, right now, the latest phase of this war, the last 3 months, has been very much a focus on the civilian infrastructure, bombarding the russians and bombarding civilians. i know you believe these a war crimes. there's this idea of a special tribunal to bring accountability. what do you make of that idea and how exactly would it work? well, i think this is, these are so atrocious war crimes that we witness. and that indeed it might call for special tribunal. and this shows that this is an