President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola at the GLOBSEC conference in Prague called on the EU to speed up decisions on Ukraine’s accession and not to delay the process, which she publicly stated on Thursday, 21 May.
The head of the European Parliament stressed that Brussels should match the pace of Ukrainian reforms with an equally swift decision-making process, and should not replace the prospect of membership with any interim cooperation formats.
“If someone had told us that a country that is at war because it was attacked could so impressively make up the volume of legislative and technical work that would take other countries ten years! So we cannot turn away without responding to this speed with the same speed,” said European Parliament President Roberta Metsola during her speech at GLOBSEC in Prague.
According to her, Ukraine, even under conditions of a full-scale war, is showing significant progress in adapting its legislation to EU norms, which, in her view, requires a synchronized response from European institutions without bureaucratic delays.
She separately advocated for the opening of the first negotiating clusters within the accession process as soon as possible, emphasizing that this should be a practical step toward moving to the next stages of negotiations, not a formal declaration of intent.
Earlier we wrote:
- The EU announced the final conditions for Ukraine’s accession under three clusters
- Ukraine increased implementation of the Agreement with the EU to 84 percent
- A majority of Ukrainians would support a peace agreement with Russia in exchange for EU accession (poll)
- Accession to the EU in 2027: no decades-long wait. What Brussels has planned for Kyiv
- Zelensky announces long-awaited negotiations on Ukraine’s accession to the EU
