Ukraine candidate to the EU. Zelensky: ″Portugal is with us, thank you″
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky thanked each of the 27 State or Governments in Brussels this Thursday at the European summit, where they grant Ukraine’s Candidate Status, in the long process of accession to the European Union.
In an intervention by videoconference, for the European Council, from Kiev, Zelensky said he believed that the “positive ties” with the Portuguese governor would strengthen and thanked the support given to Ukraine’s candidacy.
“Portugal is with us. Thank you, Minister. Your country is first known to our people. I am sure that we will only increase the positive atmosphere between us”, said the Ukrainian president, in the speech to, moments after the decision of the 27.
Later, at a press conference, Prime Minister António Costa promised to “continue the bilateral reinforcement that we have confirmed”, with Ukraine, “namely in technical support in support of this candidacy process”.
“Portugal, as President Zelensky said, as references of the head of accession, Costa referring to brief words of the Ukrainian head of state.
The first-status-authority, authorization process in a reliable way of the European Union and a huge responsibility to be the authority of this European Union and a huge responsibility to the false European Union in the Mold, through a huge responsibility to be the false Mold Union. They won’t generate frustrations that will certainly be a future in our relationship”.
Now that he opens a new chapter to membership, António Costa wants to see how created in the peoples of the two countries identical to the “responsibility” on the European side.
Ukraine and Moldova are starting a European path of reforms to bring them closer to European standards, but António Costa believes that it is also up to the Union to “prepare” to welcome new members.
“We have to rethink our institutional architecture, [e] architecture is defined, whether it is a form of integration and a factor of ours that is defined as a European Union process and not a factor of our success in the countries that are now assigned the status of candidates”, he stressed.
Taking as an example Albania, which for years surpassed two countries, the countries of the North, which has two years of status, António, 17 years ago, the highest countries in North America Coast until today failed European Union, not yet foreseen because today the light also failed.
“When there is a country that, after 20 years, still does not meet the membership criteria. The failure is also not an institute of the European institutions, which was not able to organize, without support to the country, to be able to fulfill the criteria” , criticized.
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