Accession to EU: Stefanishyna predicts that Ukraine completes remaining tasks of Eurean Commission by fall

ha Stefanishyna, Deputy Prime Minister for Eurean and Euro-Atlantic Integration, said this on the air of the United News telethon, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.

"Our ambitions were higher – in particular, we expected that the anti-corruption package of measures would be evaluated more thoroughly. We also hed that before this assessment we would fully adt the legislation on launching the Constitutional Court reform, but it was adted only in the first reading. But I believe that for the Eurean Commission to recognize any set of commitments as fulfilled less than a year after receiving candidate status is also unprecedented, as countries have been working for years to implement sets of such recommendations," Stefanishyna said.

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She added that for us, "mathematically, the numbers are quite modest, but for the Eurean Commission, this is a historic breakthrough."

The Vice Prime Minister also noted the importance for Ukraine that this interim assessment clearly outlined the steps that still need to be taken to complete the implementation of all seven recommendations by October and move on to making decisions on starting EU accession negotiations.

Stefanishyna predicted that Ukraine would complete the remaining Eurean integration tasks by the fall.

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"We have to understand that the remaining five sets of recommendations are not at the zero stage, a lot of work has been done over the year. In fact, the decisions are ready, some of them need to be adted only technically… Obviously, we will have time to do everything possible by October," she said.

As reported, on June 22, the Eurean Commission presented an interim assessment for Ukraine on the implementation of seven recommendations necessary for the start of accession negotiations. So far, Ukraine has fully implemented two recommendations, good progress has been made in implementing one, and the rest have been assessed as "some progress".