Zelenskyy calls for Ukraine to join EU before 2030 after commission delivers warning on corruption - as it happened

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We will formally get the EU’s commentary on the enlargement ratings (9:26) in just over an hour – when EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas and EU enlargment commissioner Marta Kos are due to speak to journalists – but we have just had a brief glimpse of what’s coming during Kos’s appearance in the European parliament.

She said these have been “significant advances on the EU path achieved so far by Montenegro, Albania, Moldova and Ukraine,” stressing that “reforms pay off.”

I can say that these four candidates have matched their ambitions with concrete actions.

Source: Guardian - World News