Explained: Where EU leaders stand on Ukraine’s membership to the bloc

The European Fee is that this week anticipated to endorse granting Ukraine candidate standing for EU membership.

Kyiv stuffed out the required paperwork in only a month following the unprovoked assault by Russia, handing within the accomplished second questionnaire on Could 9. 

Moldova and Georgia have additionally formally put in requests to affix the bloc since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began. 

The Fee will give its suggestion for candidate standing on Friday (17 June) with EU leaders to vote on the movement at their subsequent Council summit subsequent week.

To turn out to be a candidate for EU membership, Ukraine wants the backing of all 27 heads of state however whereas some have overtly backed the prospect — equivalent to Italy and the Baltics — others have been extra ambiguous.

France, Germany and the Netherlands have, as an illustration, pressured that candidate standing is simply step one in a really lengthy course of and that there may be no fast-track system for Ukraine provided that a number of nations within the Western Balkans have been in negotiations for years.

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