According to Juncker, disputes over the borders between Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia should be resolved as well.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko held a phone conversation with President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker on Friday, January 19, according to the presidential press service.
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.
President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker says that relations between the European Union and Ukraine are moving in the right direction, according to the Ukrainian news outlet Europeiska Pravda.
The European Commission on Thursday said that despite a lack of unity among member states over Russia’s plans for a new gas pipeline to Germany, it would press ahead to seek support for talks with Russia on its objections.
The Association Agreement between the European Union and Ukraine enters fully into force on Friday, September 1.
Ukraine’s Representative to the European Union Ambassador Mykola Tochytskiy has expressed his concern to the European Commission in connection with the statements by EC President Jean-Claude Juncker addressing Ukraine, which were used by Russian media to discredit Ukraine on the eve of the entry into force of the Ukraine-EU Association Agreement, an UNIAN correspondent in Brussels reports.
President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker has said that Ukraine is not "'European' in the sense of the European Union."
A top European Union official said Wednesday he is broadly satisfied that changes made to the U.S. Russia sanctions bill will protect European interests, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Brussels is preparing to retaliate against the U.S. if Washington pushes ahead with far-reaching new sanctions on Russia that hit European companies, The Financial Times reports.
President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker stands for the creation in Ukraine, as a matter of urgency, of an independent body aimed to fight corruption, noting that its institutional structure should be determined by the Ukrainian authorities, that’s according to a reply by President Juncker’s Advisor Richard Szostak to Ukraine-based Anti-Corruption Action Center, seen by UNIAN’.
President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker speaks out for the creation of the necessary authority to fight against corruption in Ukraine, and he did not deny the idea of creating a separate anti-corruption court, having supported the formation of a special anti-corruption chamber as part of the existing judicial system.
The National Anti-Corruption Bureau believes that the statement by President of the EU Commission Jean-Claude Juncker on the creation of a special anti-corruption chamber instead of an anti-corruption court is a consequence of deliberate misinformation against Ukraine’s European partners, the NABU statement reads.
The European Union has agreed to the idea to set up a Special Anti-Corruption Chamber within the framework of the existing judicial system instead of establishing a separate Anti-Corruption Court in Ukraine, that’s according to European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker who spoke at a joint press conference with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and EU Council President Donald Tusk.