Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine, Olha Stefanishyna, announced on Twitter that Ukraine could receive the EU membership candidacy status in June.
“Ukraine received the EU membership questionnaire. We have already done much preparatory work, so ready to move fast. Expect to be granted a candidate status in June,” Stefanishyna wrote.
Deputy Prime Minister added that the candidacy status is a “part of our recovery & victory over Russian aggressor who wants to reverse Ukraine's democratic course.”
A summit of European Union leaders is scheduled for June, at which a decision on candidate status for Ukraine may be made.
🇺🇦🇪🇺Ukraine received the EU membership questionnaire. We have already done much preparatory work, so ready to move fast.
— Olga Stefanishyna (@StefanishynaO) April 9, 2022
Expect to be granted a candidate status in June.
It is part of our recovery & victory over RU aggressor who wants to reverse Ukraine's democratic course pic.twitter.com/1rSiYC53Qc
On April 8, Ukraine received from the EU a questionnaire for obtaining a candidacy status. Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, handed it over to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
On April 8, the President of the European Commission announced that Ukraine’s application for membership in the EU should be presented to European Commission this summer.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dmytro Kuleba, recently said that Ukraine's goal now, thanks to political support, is to complete all procedures for obtaining EU candidate status as soon as possible.