Kyiv – The brand new European Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos visited Kyiv on Sunday, the primary day of her five-year mandate, along with the brand new President of the European Council Antonio Costa and the brand new Excessive Consultant for Overseas Affairs Kaja Kallas. She promised help to the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and several other members of the federal government in bringing the nation nearer to the union.
“I promise to do every little thing in my energy to carry you to the end line of the negotiation course of,” Kos stated firstly of the assembly of high-level EU and Ukraine representatives.
She said that Ukraine has already made appreciable progress in implementing reforms. On the identical time, she emphasised that the method of rapprochement is tough and based mostly on the achievements of the candidate nation, however they’ll depend on Brussels’ help. “I’m basically a part of your staff,” Kos stated.
Kos individually met with the Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Olga Stefanishyna. “We agreed to keep up a detailed and common dialogue to help an efficient affiliation course of. Ukraine is powerful and united in its dedication to the adjustments needed for EU membership,” Stefanishyna wrote on social community X.
Ukraine, which has been dealing with Russian aggression since February 2022, started accession negotiations with the EU in June this 12 months and is now awaiting the beginning of the substantive part of negotiations. This begins with the opening of the primary set of chapters associated to the rule of legislation. Within the framework that varieties the idea for negotiations, the EU authorized order is split into 33 chapters grouped into six clusters.
The President of the European Council Antonio Costa said on Sunday that Kyiv and Brussels will try to open not less than two clusters within the first half of 2025. (December 1)
