“The European Commissioner for the Extension of Marta Kos during a joint meeting of the European Commission and the Government of Ukraine reported that the EC was hoping to open three clusters of Ukraine negotiations with the EU before the end of the Polish presidency in June.”, – WRITE: www.pravda.com.ua
Source: “European Truth” correspondent
Details: The joint meeting of the EC and the government, which is a unique format in relations with the candidate state, takes place on Monday in Kiev and is dedicated to the third anniversary of the beginning of a full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation in Ukraine.
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Responding to the call of Denis Shmigal’s prime minister about the fastest discovery of all clusters, Martha Kos confirmed that European plans are in line with Ukrainian. “As well as Ukraine, we are striving to make significant progress as soon as possible, and we are working at full speed to open negotiations on the first clusters in the first half of 2025,” she said.
Kos emphasized that to open all 6 clusters we still need to take a number of steps, however, made a forecast of the opportunity to reach this by the end of 2025.
“We hope that we will be able to open clusters 1 (” Fundamentals “), 2 (” Inner Market “) and 6 (” International Relations “) during the Polish presidency, and then we will have another half a year to open three clusters, who remained, “she explained.
“We need to do a lot of work for this. To both our parties,” the commissioner emphasized.
Earlier, on Monday, Marta Kos spoke about the EU’s liability to access Ukraine. It is noteworthy that a month ago, the COS forecasts were more conservative.
For more information on the course of negotiations, see the article “Mitting martial law, changing by 2027: which requires the EU from Ukraine on the way to membership.”