MOSCOW, Jan 13 Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal said that Kyiv expects to pass the stage of negotiations on joining the EU and become a full member of the union in two years.
«We expect to pass the path of negotiations on joining the European Union in less than 2 years. And then Ukraine will become a full member of the EU,» Shmyhal wrote in his Telegram channel, noting that the amount of work to be colossal.
Vladimir Zelensky on February 28 last year signed an application for Ukraine's accession to the EU. The heads of state and government of the European Union at the summit in Brussels on June 23 approved granting Ukraine and Moldova the status of candidates for joining the union. To start accession negotiations, countries need to fulfill a number of conditions, including reforms.
Obtaining the status of a candidate is only the beginning of a rather long journey towards joining the EU. Turkey has been a candidate since 1999, North Macedonia since 2005, Montenegro since 2010 and Serbia since 2012. Croatia was the last country to join the EU in 2013, the process took ten years.