Zelensky Losing Patience With EU Membership Bid
Emmanuel Macron has stressed that accession could take “decades,” but Volodymyr Zelensky doesn’t believe this is good enough.
Emmanuel Macron has stressed that accession could take “decades,” but Volodymyr Zelensky doesn’t believe this is good enough.
MEPs voted 537 to 42 in favour of the extension, which will come into effect June 6th and extend the suspension of EU tariffs on Ukranian goods for another year.
Russia will be defeated “as Nazism was” Zelensky declared in a speech on May 8th.
For now, NATO’s priority remains Ukraine’s “military victory over Russia,” the NATO Secretary General said.
The Chinese president is the only head of state of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council who has yet to make the journey to Kyiv.
The rhetoric around Ukraine’s accession to the EU is warm, but little appears to be taking place in the way of action.
Some EPP lawmakers have threatened to boycott an upcoming center-right gathering in Naples if Berlusconi attends.
Addressing corruption remains of vital concern to Kyiv, as it seeks to prove to its western benefactors that it can be trusted with the billions in aid it has received.
Kyiv’s new Media Law threatens press freedom in the country, “without which there can be no democracy,” the International Federation of Journalists warns.
Until now, all battle tanks that have been delivered to Ukraine—from Poland and the Czech Republic—have been of Soviet design. The Challenger 2, however, is the main tank of the British army.