The European Commission has published its annual enlargement package, assessing the progress of 10 EU candidate countries and placing Ukraine among the four countries that have made the greatest progress.
Source: a press release by the European Commission on 4 November, as reported by European Pravda
Quote: " Ukraine has continued to advance on key sectoral reforms. Its institutional framework for combating corruption remains effective, with specialised anti-corruption institutions continuing to operate overall independently and effectively."
Details: Based on the EU enlargement assessment, the countries can broadly be divided into three groups: Ukraine, Moldova, Montenegro and Albania are making significant progress and actively moving towards membership North Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kosovo are seeing their EU integration processes effectively stagnate Serbia, Georgia and Türkiye are experiencing regression in certain areas or prolonged blockages in their accession negotiations.
The areas in which Ukraine has made good progress include public administration reform, developing the competitiveness of the economy, digital transformation, financial services, customs, energy, agriculture, science and education.
Meanwhile, the European Commission stressed the need to accelerate judicial and anti-corruption reforms and fulfil the commitments set out in the rule of law roadmap.
Background: Earlier, Ihor Zhovkva , Deputy Head of the Office of the President, said that Ukraine plans to continue its EU integration efforts together with Moldova. Ukraine's government and the European Commission established a Task Force at an early stage in order to secure approval within several months of draft laws regarding the rule of law and anti-corruption.
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