(Finance) – The European Commission today held an orientation debate on the applications for EU membership submitted by Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia in recent months. According to what is learned, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen and the Commissioner for Enlargement, Oliver Varhelyi, presented the main elements to structure the debate.
The aim is to finalize the dossier in view of the adoption, next Friday, of the opinion by the college of commissioners on the compliance of the three countries to the EU membership criteria.
“The Commission worked swiftly and diligently to formulate its opinions as soon as possible, within a few weeks, not years”, underlines a spokesperson for the European Executive, specifying that “once the Commission has adopted the opinions in with regard to the requests for membership of the three countries, the decision on the future steps of the EU path will be in the hands of the member states “.
Barring surprises, the European Commission should give the green light to the recognition of candidate country status a Ukraine and Moldova, the outcome of the Georgia. THEThe dossier should then be discussed at the summit of European leaders scheduled for 23 and 24 June.
Meanwhile, more than 1,500 civilians were reportedly killed in the Kiev region alone during the Russian occupation, to date 1,200 bodies have not been identified: 75% of them are men, 2% children and the rest women. This was stated by the head of the Ukrainian National Police (Npu) Igor Klymenko in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine.
“We have received reports from all over the country and criminal proceedings opened for the death of over 12 thousand people found mainly in mass graves “, he explained,” a large number of victims were discovered in the house, death due to injuries “, but precisely on the mass graves Klymenko stressed that it is too early to talk about definitive figures, “because every week the police find bodies”.
“To Bucha, Irpin, Gostomel and Borodyanka there were many killed people lying on the street: snipers fired from tanks, from armored vehicles, despite the white bands that people wore on their arms as the Russians had imposed “, added Klymenko.