On Wednesday, 8 June, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Ruslan Stefanchuk called for Ukraine to be granted EU candidate status during the European Council on 24 June.
“[Let’s] do everything together [so] that, [to] this new history that Ukraine is writing with its blood, we would add a very simple addition, written [in] pen, that Ukraine is a candidate for the European Union,” he stressed in a solemn address during the plenary session in Strasbourg.
The chairman of the...