European Commission: Ukraine has fulfilled all requirements for negotiations on EU membership

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Tuesday that Ukraine had fulfilled “almost” all the requirements set out by the EU to start accession talks, ahead of a pivotal European Council summit in December, Report informs via POLITICO.

“To see the deep and structural reforms that Ukraine is doing while fighting an existential war is to me deeply impressing,” von der Leyen told a POLITICO event.

“They have fulfilled all the necessary requirements for almost all the seven steps we asked them to do … when they became a candidate country.”