Georgia must fulfill additional conditions in order to become a candidate for membership in the European Union, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said..

" Therefore, we recommend giving a European perspective to Georgia, but going back and assessing how it meets a number of conditions before granting it candidate status,"

On the same day, the European Commission recommended granting Ukraine the status of a candidate member of the EU..

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“We recommend granting candidate status to Ukraine, realizing that the country will carry out a number of important reforms.. Ukraine has clearly demonstrated its desire to live according to European values \u200b\u200band standards. And he began his journey to the EU before the war,” Ursula von der Leyen wrote on Twitter..

Together with Ukraine, Moldova received a recommendation from the European Commission for granting the status of a candidate member of the EU.

Why some members of the European Union are trying to slow down the issue of obtaining the status of an EU candidate country for Ukraine and opposing it to the Western Balkans? Are we really competitors with six countries in this region? Read about it in the article by Volodymyr Tsybulnyk “Will European integration scold Ukraine and the Western Balkans?”?