European Commission recommends opening EU accession negotiations with Ukraine and Moldova

The European Commission has recommended opening EU accession negotiations with Ukraine, while it also recommended opening talks with Moldova once it meets final conditions.

The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, made the relevant statement at the press conference in Brussels.

"We’ve adopted our 2023 Enlargement Package recommending to open negotiations with Ukraine and Moldova, to grant candidate status to Georgia, and to open accession negotiations with Bosnia-Herzegovina, once the necessary degree of compliance is achieved," the Commission said.