Negotiations on Ukraine's accession to the EU could start soon if all the countries of the bloc can be convinced, Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky said after Czech President Petr Pavel promised to push ahead with the start of negotiations on Kiev's accession to the EU by the end of this year.. It is reported by Euractiv.

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However, many countries of the bloc are skeptical and the Czech Republic is trying to allay their fears.. Ukraine will have to fulfill all the conditions and “cannot enjoy any concessions” on this issue, Lipavsky added..

Ukraine received the status of a candidate for EU membership in 2022. Last year, the country received seven recommendations from Brussels that it must adhere to in order to move closer to accession..

The head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said in January that Ukraine has made significant progress in implementing those recommendations that relate to domestic politics and the judiciary..

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Earlier it was reported that a preliminary " EU enlargement report, which will contain the main assessment, is scheduled for autumn, probably October.

The Ukrainian authorities hope that Ukraine will be able to go through the process of accession negotiations with the European Union very quickly and become a member of the EU in two years.

At the same time, the leaders of European institutions are reserved about the time frame for Ukraine's accession and emphasize that the procedure does not provide for clear chronological boundaries of the various stages, and the speed of entry depends on the merits - the pace and quality of reforms of the candidate country.

Find out what the first assessment of the European Commission on Ukraine's readiness to join the EU says from the article by the experts of the Ukrainian Center for European Policy Lyubov Akulenko and Snezhana Dyachenko "