The 27 Member States of the European Union have unanimously agreed to start the process so that Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia can become, in the future, in members of the community bloc. An initiative that comes after the request that these three countries made to Brussels last week.
As reported by the French presidency of the Union on its official Twitter account, the Twenty-seven have asked the Commission to take the first step on that path, preparing the necessary report to decide whether the EU countries grant Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia the status of a candidate country.
“Agreement to invite the European Commission to present an opinion on each of the applications for accession to the EU presented by Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova”, highlights the tweet, after a meeting of the ambassadors of the Twenty-seven before the community institutions, in which this issue has been addressed.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky signed the petition for EU membership last week, as part of the response to the invasion that Russia started on February 24. Moldova and Georgia followed suit immediatelyfearing Moscow.
The steps to follow
The procedure now passes because the Community Executive prepares a report assessing whether Kiev, Chisinau and Tbilisi meet the criteria to become candidate countries to enter the EU, among them, respect for the fundamental values of the Unionthe existence of stable institutions that guarantee democracy, as well as a market economy.
When Brussels completes its assessment – which is the first step in a process that usually lasts years – EU countries must approve it unanimously and only then could accession negotiations begin.
The President of the European Commission, Ursula Von der Leyen, has assured that “there is still a way to go” to successfully complete this enlargement process. Today Turkey, Serbia and Montenegro are in negotiations with Brussels to enter in the EU and Albania and North Macedonia have obtained the status of candidate countries.
Source: Lasexta
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