Overseas admission procedure
Selenskyj delivers questionnaire on EU membership
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In early April, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen presented Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky with an application for EU membership.
Source: dpa/Adam Schreck
Ukraine is closer to joining the European Union: Kiev has already filled out the questionnaire that Commission President Ursula von der Leyen had with her during her visit and handed it to the EU ambassador in Kiev.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy handed the questionnaire for his country’s accession to the EU to the EU ambassador in Kiev. The announcement was made by Ambassador Matti Maasikas on Monday night. The Estonian diplomat spoke on Twitter of “another step for Ukraine on the way to the EU”.
“We hope that the recommendation is positive and then the ball will be in the hands of EU member states,” Vice President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s office, Ihor Zhovkva, said in an interview with Ukrainian public television on Sunday (local time).
The European Commission must now clarify whether Ukraine meets the necessary membership criteria: According to Zhovkva, Ukraine expects to receive EU candidate status during the planned meeting of the European Council on 23 and 24 June.
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During her April 8 visit to Kiev, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen promised Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj an expedited decision on the country’s admission to the international community. She handed Selenskyj a list of questions about intended EU membership, and the president promised to process the document within a week.
Ukraine had applied for EU membership shortly after the Russian invasion of Ukraine began. Joining the EU is a long and complicated process. Even if the EU Commission assesses the application positively, the start of admission negotiations could still take a long time, as all EU states need to agree.
According to its president, the European Commission is currently working on an oil embargo procedure. “We are developing smart mechanisms so that oil can also be included in the next stage of sanctions,” says Ursula von der Leyen of Bild am Sonntag, according to a preliminary report. Oil is traded globally. “What shouldn’t happen is that Putin charges even higher prices in other markets for supplies that would otherwise go to the EU.”
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