Stefanishyna: Ukraine will not meet all requirements for EU accession by October 2023

Olha Stefanishyna, Vice Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine, has said that Ukraine will not completely fulfil all the requirements for EU membership by October 2023.

Olha Stefanishyna made this statement at the conference "What does Ukraine's path to the EU look like?".

We are talking about fundamental transformations in the country related to human rights, the process of de-oligarchisation, etc. These are changes that will take years to implement.

But by October, Ukraine will have taken all the agreed legislative and institutional steps.

The European Commission is to submit a report assessing Ukraine's implementation of the seven points on its way to the EU.

"We are constantly negotiating so that the seven recommendations do not get extended. As we implement anti-corruption measures, there is a need for additional measures, the implementation of a whole anti-corruption strategy, many other tasks, but they should not be part of the political process," Stefanishyna said.

She believes it is "a little harder" for Ukraine than other countries that joined the EU. But this is not due to the war, but because "Ukraine is moving towards the EU while reforming the EU itself."

At the same time, Ukraine will have a " substantial background" in each of the seven blocs. And some of them, according to Stefanishyna, can be closed completely.