EU and Ukrainian flags. File photoBRUSSELS, Jun 21The head of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, is waiting for EU leaders to support the candidate status for Ukraine at the June 23-24 summit. which the European Parliament has already expressed, and this is what we expect from the European Council in the next few days,» she said at a press conference in Finland. />Michel will call for granting EU candidate status to Ukraine and Moldova At the same time, Metsola stressed that «each country has its own path to the EU, much needs to be done, many stages ahead.» The European Commission on Friday recommended granting Moldova and Ukraine candidate status for joining the European Union with the understanding that these countries need to take certain steps, reforms to launch accession negotiations. Georgia, in order to obtain such a status, must, on the recommendation of the European Commission, first fulfill certain conditions. The EC recommendations on granting the status of candidates to the European Union for three countries will be considered by the EU heads of state at a summit on June 23-24. On February 28, Volodymyr Zelensky signed an application for Ukraine's accession to the European Union. Moldovan President Maia Sandu signed such a document on March 3. Georgian authorities originally planned to apply in 2024, but Tbilisi decided to speed up the process. Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili signed an application for granting the country the status of a candidate country for EU accession also on March 3. The leaders of the factions of the European Parliament, as well as the head of the EP, Robert Metsola, called on the participants in the EU summit on June 23-24 to grant the status of a candidate country to Ukraine and Moldova, as well as to continue work over such a status for Georgia.
