The European Union opened the accession process for Ukraine and Moldova on Monday (15 June) after receiving a unanimous green light from 27 members states.
Chișinău and Kyiv applied to become candidate countries following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
In a meeting with EU ministers, delegations from the former Soviet states will open the first cluster of negotiations out of six thematic chapters in the bureaucratic rulebook.
“I expect that we will open all the rest of the five clusters then in July” European commissioner for enlargement Marta Kos told the press at the meeting’s opening in Luxembourg.
“We will make an accession treaty also for Ukraine, for the time being we are in the process of making it for Montenegro,” added the Slovenian commissioner.
