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Start of accession negotiations with Ukraine and Moldova

by AI | 27.Jun 2024 | Europe in brief AI

Ukraine and Moldova have reached a historic milestone on their path to the EU with the official start of accession negotiations.

Olga Stefanichyna, Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine, addresses the press in Luxembourg, on June 25, 2024. (Photo: Jean-Christophe Verhaegen / AFP)

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Luxembourg – The European Union officially launched accession negotiations with Ukraine and Moldova in Luxembourg on Tuesday, a step described as “historic” both in Kiev and Brussels.

Russia has tried by all means to hinder this accession process, which promises to be long and difficult.

“Over the past year, our country has been subjected to hybrid attacks orchestrated by Moscow, (…) in an effort to derail the European integration process,” Moldovan Prime Minister Dorin Recean said on Tuesday.

“Historic moment” for European Council President Charles Michel, “historic day” for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky: the superlatives were not lacking to praise the event, eagerly awaited in Kiev, more than two years after the start of the Russian invasion, and in Chisinau.

In Ukraine, “90% of the people support us, we will make the required reforms,” assured Deputy Prime Minister Olga Stefanichyna. (25.06.2024)

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