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Head of the European Union’s Delegation to Ukraine Hugues Mingarelli stresses the EU’s consistent calls on Ukraine to create an independent and effective judicial body armed with the necessary authority to tackle corruption, the EU Delegation’s press service says.
On Monday morning, the EU Delegation met with members of the Verkhovna Rada Svitlana Zalishchuk, Ivan Krulko, Mustafa Nayyem and Sergii Leshchenko as well as representatives of civil society to discuss the outcomes of the EU-Ukraine Summit held last week, the press service reports.
Ambassador Mingarelli reassured the meeting participants that there has been no change in the EU's position on the fight against corruption, which should be further accelerated and intensified.
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As UNIAN reported earlier, EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker at a press conference in Kyiv July 13 said that the EU had agreed to the idea of setting up an anti-corruption chamber in the framework of the existing judicial system instead of creating a separate anti-corruption court.
In turn, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau believes that the move would deepen the problem with the lack of sentences handed down against corrupt top officials.