The European Commission has recommended that member states open formal EU membership talks with Ukraine and Moldova, and that they grant candidate status to Georgia. "Today is a historic day because today the Commission recommends that the council opens accession negotiations with Ukraine and with Moldova," says Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission. Von der Leyen added that Ukraine has fulfilled more than 90% of the necessary steps.
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00:00 "Ten years later, today is a historic day because today the Commission recommends that
00:08 the Council opens accession negotiations with Ukraine and with Moldova.
00:15 Ukraine continues to face tremendous hardship and tragedy provoked by Russia's war of aggression
00:22 and yet the Ukrainians are deeply reforming their country even as they are fighting a war
00:30 that is existential for them.
00:33 Ukraine has completed, I was there over the weekend and could convince myself, well over
00:38 90% of the necessary steps that we set out last year in our report."
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