The European Council’s president,
Charles Michel, expects a “difficult” meeting next month on the matter of
launching formal accession talks with Ukraine, he said during a visit to Kyiv on Tuesday.
Michel was speaking at a joint news conference with Ukraine’s president,
Volodymyr Zelenskiy, and Moldova’s president, Maia Sandu.
Ukraine was
added last summer to the queue of official candidates with recommendations to prioritise seven clusters of changes centring on judicial governance, anti-corruption legislation and anti-oligarchisation among them.
Sandu has urged the EU to show “speed and unity” regarding Moldova’s and Ukraine’s bids to join the bloc, as she visited Kyiv on Tuesday.
“The urgency of these times, marked by war and insecurity, demands that we accelerate our processes. Speed and unity are not just strategic choices, they are a matter of survival and the return to European stability,” she told a news conference in the Ukrainian capital.