CER podcast: What next on the path for Ukraine's EU membership?

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🗓️ 1 July 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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In this week's CER podcast, our foreign policy director Ian Bond spoke to three senior figures involved in Ukraine's application for EU membership: Natalie Forsyuk, General-Director of Ukraine's Governmental Office on European Integration & NATO; Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze, Chair of the Parliamentary Committee on Ukraine's Integration into the EU; and Katarína Mathernová, Deputy Director-General for Neighbourhood Policy & Enlargement Negotiations at the European Commission, and Head of the Commission's Support Group for Ukraine. Ian spoke to Natalie and Ivanna just before the European Council decided on granting Ukraine (and Moldova) candidate status for EU membership, and Katarína shortly afterwards. They discussed what's next on, and what's needed for, the path for Ukraine becoming an EU member-state. Produced by Rosie Giorgi Music by Edward Hipkins

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0:00.0	From the Center for European Reform, this is the CIA podcast.
0:04.0	Poson us seriously the question of the
0:05.9	future that we want, and we all
0:08.0	all together, the courage to it construct.
0:10.4	For us in Germany, is the
0:11.9	Bekentness to the European Europe,
0:14.0	a part of our state's resolve.
0:15.6	A strong united Europe is a necessity for the world
0:17.8	because an integrated Europe remains vital to our
0:20.1	international order. This is the moment for Europe world because integrated Europe remains vital to our international order.
0:21.3	This is the moment for Europe to lead the way towards a new vitality.
0:27.7	Hello and welcome to the latest podcast from the Centre for European Reform.
0:32.7	I'm Ian Bond, the foreign policy director of the CR.
0:36.3	We recorded some of this podcast just before it
0:38.8	became official that the European Council had agreed with the Commission's recommendation
0:43.0	that Ukraine and Moldova should be given candidate status, and some of it soon afterwards.
0:49.5	And I was joined by some of the people who've played and who will indeed play pivotal roles in Ukraine's
0:55.6	integration into the EU, however long and difficult the process might turn out to be. So just
1:03.4	before the decision was taken, I spoke to Natalia Forsyuk, the general director of Ukraine's
1:09.9	governmental office on European Integration and NATO,
1:13.7	and Ivana Klimpush Tsensadze, the chair of the Ukrainian Parliament's Committee on Integration
1:19.4	into the EU. And after the candidate status was approved, I spoke to Katerina Maternava,
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