Portugal’s active lobbying for Ukraine’s membership in the European Union

According to Isna, Portuguese Foreign Minister Paulo Rangel told reporters on the sidelines of the annual Ambrosity meeting held on Saturday in the city of Cernobio, located in Italy: “Portugal is actively trying to join Ukraine to the European Union.” “

According to the report of the American media “Bloomberg”, Rangel, following his statement, called for the EU to be ready for Ukraine’s “ultimate membership” in this union.

He added: “We should prepare for Ukraine’s admission to the European Union if possible.” This process requires a financial and institutional reform, which we must do immediately.”

Wrangel’s lobbying comes while last week, the Prime Minister of Poland threatened that he will not prevent Kyiv from joining the European Union only if Ukraine investigates the “Volin massacre” case.

During the Volyn massacre during World War II, Ukrainian nationalists committed mass murders of Poles. During this massacre, at least 60,000 ethnic Poles were killed between 1943 and 1944 in the historical regions of Volhynia and Eastern Galicia, which now belong to Ukraine, by the Ukrainian Insurgent Militia (UPA) and the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN). became

On the other hand, in the same meeting, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni agreed to cooperate next year to hold a conference focusing on the reconstruction of Ukraine after the war.

According to the website “U. it. In their meeting, Zelenskiy and Meloni discussed military aid, reconstruction of Ukraine, reform of the “peace formula” for Ukraine and European integration.

This meeting took place after the government of Ukraine experienced a wave of extensive changes among its officials in the past days, during which many ministers and deputy prime ministers resigned or changed their positions. The most prominent of these changes was the resignation of “Dmytro Kolba”, the former foreign minister, and the replacement of “Andrei Sibiha” as the new foreign minister on Zelensky’s recommendation.

However, despite the agreement of the leaders of Ukraine and Italy to hold a conference focusing on “Ukraine’s reconstruction after the war”, Zelsenky also demanded military aid and the future of this war remains “ambiguous” according to Bloomberg.

At the same time as Ukraine and its allies claim about the country’s “achievements in the attack on Kursk”, according to Western media and analysts, Russian forces are advancing increasingly in eastern Ukraine.

So, during the meeting of Ukraine’s allies, which was held today at Ramstein Air Base in Germany, after Zelensky’s request to obtain permission from the United States to use Western weapons, especially long-range missiles against Russian soil, Lloyd Austin, the Secretary of Defense of the United States He admitted that there is no capability that would cause this war to change in favor of Kiev.

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