European Commission to recommend launching talks on Ukraine’s EU accession – media

This was reported by Radio Liberty’s journalist Rikard Jozwiak.

“Drafting of the European Commission’s enlargement report, due in the second half of October, has started. State of play is that there will be recommendations for Ukraine and Moldova to start EU accession talks and for Georgia to get candidate status,” he tweeted.

“But consensus of 27 EU members in December still needed,” he added.

What is known about Ukraine's accession to the EU

Ukraine applied for EU membership on 28 February 2022 during the Russian-Ukrainian war. 

On June 23, 2022, Ukraine was granted candidate status for EU membership.

In May 2023, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said that Ukraine should be ready to join the European Union in two years – the country expects to receive a political decision to start accession talks this year.

Ukraine’s Parliament Speaker Ruslan Stefanchuk also noted that Ukraine is set to join the EU before NATO and plans to start membership negotiations by the end of this year.

On June 19, foreign media reported that, according to the European Commission, Ukraine had fulfilled two of the seven conditions for the start of EU membership talks, while Brussels noted the progress made despite the full-scale war.