Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico confirmed his foreign minister's statement that Bratislava would not oppose the launch of Ukraine's accession talks during the upcoming EU summit, the Slovak news outlet Pravda reported on Dec. 13.
Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has said that news with a "positive effect" on Ukraine's movement towards EU membership will soon appear. Source: Kuleba on the national joint 24/7 newscast on Monday, reported by European Pravda Details: Asked about the results of the European Commission's assessment of Ukraine's progress towards EU membership, on the basis of which the European Council is to make a decision on negotiations, the foreign minister said that "the results will not be announc
Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo has stated at a meeting of the party council of the Coalition Party that negotiations between the EU and Ukraine regarding membership of the union could begin in December.
Ukraine has made "great strides" towards joining the European Union since getting candidate status in 2022, but hard work still lies ahead, the head of the bloc's executive said in her annual speech on Wednesday. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen addressed the European Parliament in Strasbourg as the 27-nation bloc starts debating whether to grant Kyiv a formal start to EU membership negotiations at an EU summit due on Dec. 14-15. "We know this is not an easy road," von der Leye