Ukraine plans to fill in second part of EU membership questionnaire before end of next week

"The European Union has already examined the part of the documents we submitted. There were no additional questions, our work was appreciated quite highly. We carried out the reforms described there together with our partners, so we already closed that part of work. Now we prepare to submit the whole book of our statehood to the European Union by the end of next week," Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine Olha Stefanishyna said during the nationwide telethon, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.

As reported, on April 18, President Volodymyr Zelensky handed over a completed questionnaire for obtaining EU candidate country status to Head of the EU Delegation to Ukraine Matti Maasikas. This questionnaire was given to the Ukrainian side personally by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen during her visit to Kyiv on April 8.

On April 18, Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Olha Stefanishyna said that Ukraine had already received the second part of the questionnaire and that the Government team would make every effort to complete this part as soon as possible.

President Zelensky signed Ukraine's application for membership in the European Union on February 28, 2022.

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