Correspondent in Brussels
More sanctions against Russia, more financial and military aid, and above all rapid accession to the EU.
While the highest representatives of the Union have been in kyiv for the past two days to show their support for a Ukraine at war for almost a year, Volodymyr Zelensky and his ministers have increased the pressure on the Europeans, inviting them to accelerate their country's accession.
"This year should be the time when no obstacles will remain at the start of negotiations on Ukraine's full accession to the EU",
underlined the Ukrainian president, judging that his country
"deserves"
this membership in view of the progress made to align itself with European standards and because Ukraine is fighting against Russia for itself but also for all of Europe.
The task of Charles Michel, the President of the European Council, and Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the Commission, who came to the site for the 24th EU-Ukraine summit, did not…
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