2024-06-22 07:05:27
EU ministers will begin talks first with Ukraine after which with Moldova in Luxembourg on Tuesday afternoon, officers stated.
Ukraine utilized for EU membership in February 2022 after the beginning of a full-scale invasion by Russia. Moldova and Georgia submitted such functions in March 2022.
EU leaders formally acknowledged Ukraine and Moldova as candidate nations in June 2023, and Georgia in December 2023.
The beginning of accession negotiations is only the start of an extended reform course of that normally takes years earlier than a rustic lastly joins the EU.
The European Fee (EC) introduced this month to member states that Ukraine and Moldova have met all the standards crucial to start out negotiations.
With issues that Hungary taking up the rotating presidency of the EU in July might hinder progress, strain has elevated to push Ukraine a step additional in its bid to turn out to be an EU member state. Hungary, which is essentially the most Russia-friendly EU nation, has introduced that it doesn’t plan to carry additional rounds of negotiations with Ukraine throughout its six-month presidency.
The conflict in Ukraine has revived the European Union’s efforts to confess new members. EU leaders have agreed to start out formal talks with Bosnia-Herzegovina about becoming a member of the bloc, and the EU has opened such talks with Serbia, Montenegro, Albania and North Macedonia.
2024-06-22 07:05:27