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The governments and parliaments of the EU member states should decide to start negotiations next Friday (December 15th), according to the appeal passed by the majority.
Deputy Yaroslav Zheleznyak reported on the meeting – held behind closed doors due to martial law – on Saturday in Kiev in his channel on the Telegram news service.
At the EU summit next week, heads of state and government want to decide whether negotiations on EU accession for Ukraine, which has been weakened by Russia’s war of aggression, should begin. The Rada also called on EU states to continue to support Ukraine’s fight for state sovereignty and for the restoration of its territorial integrity and not to ease up on financial aid to the country. Russia attacked Ukraine on February 24, 2022, after annexing the Ukrainian Crimean peninsula in 2014.
Military support for Ukraine must be increased in order to strengthen its defense capability, it said. Financial aid is also needed to pay for reconstruction and repair the war damage. The energy infrastructure and transport routes, for example, would have to be restored. In turn, further sanctions packages should be issued against Russia in order to exert economic and political pressure on the country, the appeal said.
Ukraine received candidate status in 2022. A large majority of EU states now want to decide, among other things, on the official start of accession negotiations at the summit on December 14th and 15th. But it is still questionable whether this will happen. A decision is only possible if no EU member state vetoes it – and just a few days ago Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban threatened a blockade. Among other things, he criticizes the fact that Ukraine is not yet meeting all the reform requirements.
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