Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba expressed confidence that Ukraine’s EU accession process will not take decades. The head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine announced this live on the 1+1 TV channel.
“The European Union will not repeat the mistake of allowing negotiations to drag on for decades,” Kuleba said.
According to him, after Ukraine started negotiations for EU membership, the only thing left for Kiev was to “negotiate and ratify the accession agreement”. Kuleba noted that no country had ever moved from EU candidate status to the stage of starting negotiations to join the bloc within a year and a half.
Former Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban named Opening negotiations on Ukraine’s EU membership is a bad decision.
In contrast, the British newspaper Times highlightedIt was stated that Ukraine’s accession to the EU could be postponed until at least 2030, that many EU countries fear losing their veto power on issues such as finance and expansion of the bloc, and that Ukraine is also aware of the high cost of EU membership.
Former European Council President Charles Michel statedPresidents of European countries decided to start negotiations on the accession of Ukraine and Moldova to the European Union.