Mogherini: Ukraine's accession to the European Union is not on the agenda

Vladimir Dobrovolsky. The head of the EU diplomacy Federica Mogherini said that the issue of Ukraine's accession to the European Union was not and is not on the agenda.

"Every country in the European territory may or able sooner or later to write the application for membership. It was not on the agenda in the last few years, It is not on the agenda at present. We have With Ukraine is the Association agreement, which means a strong partnership that enables the EU to support Ukraine in its reforms, economic reforms, social reforms, internal institutional reforms, " said Mogherini aired by the British television channel Sky News, answering the question, did the EU plans to take Ukraine into its own composition.

the Association agreement With the European Union and Ukraine signed in Brussels on 27 June 2014. The Association provides for the deepening of economic relations between Ukraine and the EU, harmonization in the field of law and development of a free trade zone. The full document will come into force after ratification by the parliaments of the member countries of the EU. As long as the Association agreement between Ukraine and the EU ratified the majority of Eastern European countries - Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden and Malta. The main part of the agreement entered into force on 1 November, and the section on the free trade area will come into force on 1 January 2016.

From 1 July 2013, Ukraine switched to the simplified visa regime With the EU, now Kiev is seeking transition to full visa regime, and in the longer term and accession to the European Union.

experts believe that the EU is not willing to accept their own part of Ukraine in the foreseeable future, because the country is in a precarious economic situation. Ukraine need in the 1st place, to solve economic problems, to meet the conditions for EU accession.


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