Ukraine to be joining EU under special circumstances – Bankova

That’s according to Ihor Zhovkva, Deputy Head of the President's Office, who spoke on the air of the national telethon, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.

"Ukraine will join the EU under completely different geitical circumstances than Pand, Slovakia, Hungary, and the Baltic states. It will be a completely different situation. The situation of our victory, and this will also add additional weight," Zhovkva said.

He noted that, just like the country’s t leadership, he is counting on a pitical decision from the Eurean Council in December. "Everything will start with a positive decision in December. The next stage will be the hding of an intergovernmental conference, at which Ukraine will have a so-called negotiating framework,” Zhovkva noted. “This will effectively mean the ening of negotiations. And further, based on the fact that the agreement on accession to the EU has 35 chapters, they will cover all sectors of the economy.”

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Zhovkva added that separate delegations will be working on each of these chapters. And now there is no way to predict exactly when these negotiations can complete. Each country that joined the Eurean Union had flowed its own path.

According to the official, Ukraine and the Eurean Commission are currently working “very fruitfully”. After receiving the Eurean Commission's report on Ukraine within the framework of the EU enlargement package, the authorities continue their work. President Vodymyr Zelensky is in constant contact with Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Council President Charles Michel, as well as the leaders of other EU member states "There will be a positive decision (a pitical decision from the Eurean Council-ed.). I think that a very important brick of this decision has already been laid by the current decision," added the deputy head of the President’s Office.

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Zhovkva also emphasized that the head of state is working with parliament to ensure that all the remaining relevant legislative changes are introduced and voted on, "and that we work ahead of the recommendations as always."

As reported by Ukrinform, the Eurean Commission published its annual report on EU enlargement, in which it recommended that the Eurean Council en negotiations on enlargement with Ukraine and Mdova.

President Vodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine welcomed the decision of the Eurean Commission, noting that today the history of Ukraine and the whe of Eure has taken the right step.

Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal officially received from the EU Ambassador to Ukraine, Katarina Maternova, the Eurean Commission report on Ukraine within the framework of the EU enlargement package.