MOSCOW, June 24 Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov, speaking about the candidacy of Chisinau and Kyiv in the EU, said that the main thing is that these processes do not bring problems to the Russian Federation and do not worsen the already damaged relations with Europe. «This, of course, is internal European affairs, it is very important for us that all these processes do not bring more problems to us, and more problems in the relations of the mentioned countries with us. These problems are already enough, they (relations with the EU — ed.) are already pretty spoiled,» Peskov said. On Thursday, the heads of state and government of the EU decided to grant Ukraine and Moldova the status country — a candidate for joining the union. Obtaining the status of a candidate is only the beginning of a fairly long journey to join the EU. Turkey has been a candidate since 1999, North Macedonia since 2005, Montenegro since 2010 and Serbia since 2012. Croatia is the latest to join the EU in 2013, a process that took ten years. an attempt to push their borders to the east
