ANSA | Ukraine, 'EU summit decisive for momentum on enlargement'

The summit of European leaders on 14-15 December, in which among other things the start of negotiations for the accession to the EU of Ukraine, Moldova and Bosnia-Herzegovina will be discussed, “will give a answer” to the question of whether we are faced with a “new historic impetus in the enlargement” of the EU or whether we will go back to “an enlargement agenda characterized by vetoes”, like the one “unfortunately experienced by the Western Balkans”. Olha Stefanishyna, Ukrainian deputy prime minister for European and Euro-Atlantic integration, said this, speaking at an event organized by the think tank Friends of Europe. “Our feeling in Kiev is that we are faced with a new historic impetus”, which recalls the 1999 summit when “the decision was made to start a massive enlargement” explained the vice prime minister, underlining the need for this impetus to come ” preserved”.