This Wednesday, the European Commission recommended to twenty-seven member states open accession negotiations with Ukraine, although he points out that minority protection and anti-corruption reforms have not yet been completed, he is conditioning the scope of negotiations on Kyiv completing these reforms with an eye toward March 2024.

“The Commission recommends to the Council that begin negotiations on accession with Ukraine”, collects a report from the European Executive Director on the candidates’ progress and expresses various views on next steps.

The executive power of the community recognizes the progress of Kyiv in far-reaching reforms to bring them in line with European standards, completing four of the seven priority reforms set by Brussels while fighting Russian encroachment on its own territory.

However, the report indicates upcoming reforms, In particular, measures to strengthen the fight against corruption, as well as the implementation of laws to reduce the influence of oligarchs in the social, political and economic life of Ukraine and the need to finalize the legislative framework for national minorities in accordance with the standards established by the Venice Conference. Commission.

For all these reasons, Brussels recommends that Member States accept the framework for negotiations after Ukraine implements the specified measures and which he is working on, from the point of view March 2024.

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Kyiv requested official entry days after Russian military aggression And already in June last year, the EU recognized its candidate status along with Moldova, which is an intermediate step that represents support for progress in European reforms and its integration into some European economic structures.

Now the ball is on the Twenty-Seven court, which they will discuss at the leaders’ summit in December if they decide to start negotiations.

The EU is currently holding open negotiations with Albania, North Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro, The most advanced country, and yet it has been immersed in this process for ten years and shows no signs of ending it in the near future.

(Europe Press)