BRUSSELS, July 1 (Xinhua) -- Ukraine's bid to join the European Union (EU) is "within reach" but requires "hard work, determination and above all unity of purpose," European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Friday. Addressing the Ukrainian parliament via video link, she s...
After a disappointing week in which it struggled to secure support in Washington, on December 14th Ukraine received some surprising good news from Brussels. The European Union agreed to opennegotiationsfor the country to join thebloc. Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, will not imminently be ...
Ukraine will join EU in 2025-2027, Rada speaker says Dominik Istrate Speaker of the Ukrainian parliament Andrey Paruby has said that Ukraine stands a good chance of joining the European Union between 2025 and 2027. Mr Paruby’s...
Why the Ukraine should not be allowed to join the European Union in the Short RunChristian Pfeiffer
The Ukrainian parliament approved in the first reading a bill on including Ukraine's goal to join NATO and the EU in the constitution in 2019. In 2014, when pro-West authorities came into power in Ukraine, Kiev abandoned its multilateral policy and set a course toward European integration. Fu...
Ukraine could become a member of the European Union after the EU Commission proposed it as a candidate, the first step on a long road toward membership for the war-torn country. Ukraine applied for membership in the blocless than a week after Russia first invaded the country. ...
For its part, the commission dismissed any idea that von der Leyen’s “one of us” remark meant that Ukraine can avoid going through the hoops that countries wanting to join the EU face. “There is a process when it comes to accession negotiations,” said chief spokesperson Eric Mamer. ...
Ukraine's President Volodymy Zelenskyy welcomed a delegation of top European Union officials to Kyiv on Thursday for two days of important talks of strengthening ties between the country and the bloc, as well as the more thorny issue of Ukraine's application to join the EU. ...
For the six Western Balkans countries aspiring to join the European Union, gaining full membership in the 27-nation club remains a distant goal. But Albania, Bosnia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia are getting more concrete signs that they have a future place in the EU as Russi...
In September 2008, under the French EU Presidency, the Union decided that the future legal basis would be an Association Agreement. But the bloc made no commitment that Ukraine would join the European Union one day. For comparison, an association agreement, aimed at bringing Turkey into a ...