Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko stressed that the Ukrainian delegation managed to resolve an important political issue during the Fifth Eastern Partnership Summit of uniting the positions of the EU countries around the possible introduction of a peacekeeping mission in Donbas.
Speaking of Ukraine and its education law at a press conference on the sidelines of the Eastern European Summit on November 24, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said Hungary would not “sacrifice” ethnic Hungarians living in western Ukraine “on the altar of world politics”, according to the Hungarian Journal.
Ukraine must show progress in reforms to get macrofinancial support from the EU, President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker told a press conference in Brussels following the fifth Eastern Partnership Summit November 24.
Ukraine is looking forward to becoming part of the Energy Union; Digital Single Market; Customs Union, and Schengen area, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said, speaking at the Fifth Eastern Partnership Summit in Brussels on November 24.
Eastern Partnership Summit participants have stated in the Declaration signed off on Friday, November 24, that people’s confidence in their governments could be restored through public administration reform and by tackling corruption, an UNIAN correspondent in Brussels reported.
Addressing the plenary session of the Fifth Eastern Partnership Summit in Brussels November 24, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said that the seizure of Ukrainian land by the Russian Federation is an arrogant slap in the face of international law and European Union, the president’s press service reported.
The participants in the Fifth Eastern Partnership Summit that started its work in Brussels on November 24, have signed the event’s final declaration, urging for the settlement of the ongoing conflicts, according to an UNIAN correspondent.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Thursday, November 23, held a meeting with the President of the European Council Donald Tusk in Brussels, ahead of the Eastern Partnership Summit to be held November 24.
In two weeks, the fifth Eastern Partnership summit will be held, which could become a landmark event, heralding a new strategic vision for this EU initiative for years to come, Kostyantyn Yeliseiev, Ukraine’s former ambassador to the EU and now a presidential aide wrote in a column for EUObserver.
EU member states have reportedly come to a compromise on the way "European aspirations" of Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia should be referred to in the final declaration of the Eastern Partnership summit, Europeiska Pravda reports.
The European Parliament's foreign affairs committee is calling for tighter sanctions on Russia and a mechanism for bringing Eastern Partnership countries such as Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine closer to the European Union, according to RFE/RL.