Vladimir Zelensky. Archive photoMOSCOW, May 10.Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Kyiv had submitted to the EU the completed second part of the questionnaire for obtaining the status of a candidate for membership in the Union, he hopes to receive an answer on the status of a candidate for Ukraine in June. «Today we have taken another step, a very important and not just a formal step, on our way to the European Union.Ukraine has submitted the second part of the answers to a special questionnaire that every country that aspires to be part of the European Union must fill out … this is a document that includes thousands of pages … we expect to receive a positive answer in June regarding Ukraine's status candidate for an EU member,” Zelensky said in a video message published on his Telegram channel. On Monday, he said that he “demonstrated” the second part of the questionnaire to the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, during a meeting via video link. At the same time, French President Emmanuel Macron later said that the process of Ukraine's accession to the EU could take several years, even decades. The head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, during her visit to Kyiv in April, handed over to Volodymyr Zelensky a questionnaire to start negotiations on joining the European Union. She stressed that the document being transferred is «the basis for discussions in the coming months.» Later, Zelensky said that he had handed over the completed first part of the questionnaire to the head of the EU Delegation to Ukraine, Mati Maasikas. He added that Ukraine would soon send the second part of the answers to the EU. On February 28, Zelensky signed an application for Ukraine's accession to the European Union. The next day, the European Parliament supported a resolution granting Ukraine the status of a candidate country. Earlier, the EU Permanent Representatives agreed to instruct the European Commission to prepare an assessment of the applications of Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova for EU membership.
