The Verkhovna Rada approved all the laws that the EU required before the start of negotiations on Ukraine's membership in the EU. This was stated by the speaker of the Ukrainian Parliament Ruslan Stefanchuk.

The EU Commission granted Ukraine the status of an EU candidate country in June, suggesting that Ukraine is pursuing legislative and political reforms.. Stefanchuk recalled that Ukraine received 7 recommendations. They concerned, inter alia, the selection of judges of the Constitutional Court, the regulation of the media, the eradication of corruption and the strengthening of the rights of minorities..

The EU Commission said it would monitor the actions of Ukraine and report on them before the end of the year. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, who visited Kyiv in September, said she was impressed by how quickly Ukraine took the steps needed to fight for EU membership..

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Despite a promising initial step, Ukraine's EU membership is thought to take about a decade.

For more information on what our further movement towards EU membership depends on, read the article by Konstantin Yeliseev "