Ukraine receives full set of accession criteria from EU
According to Ukrinform, Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko announced this on Telegram.
“Today, the Ukrainian delegation in Brussels received the European Union’s accession benchmarks for the final three negotiating clusters, Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Svyrydenko has announced. The clusters concerned are: Cluster 3 – Competitiveness and Inclusive Growth, Cluster 4 – Green Agenda and Sustainable Connectivity, and Cluster 5 – Resources, Agriculture and Cohesion,” the statement reads.
According to Svyrydenko, for the first time in history, Ukraine has a complete set of conditions for EU accession. Earlier, in December 2025, the Ukrainian side received the conditions—benchmarks—for three other clusters: Cluster 1 – Fundamentals, Cluster 2 – Internal Market, and Cluster 6 – External Relations.
“We are confidently moving along the European integration path. The next steps are successful closure of the clusters and signing of the Accession Treaty, the final step toward Ukraine’s full membership in the European Union,” the prime minister noted.
She emphasized that the government will continue to fulfill the accession requirements—implementing the necessary reforms and measures and reporting to the EU.
As previously reported, negotiations on the accession of new member states to the European Union are divided into 35 chapters, 33 of which are grouped into six thematic clusters that are opened sequentially. For each chapter, the European Commission first conducts an official screening to assess the compliance of Ukraine’s legislation with EU legal standards.
European Commissioner Marta Kos outlined the main challenges and tasks facing candidate countries on their path to EU accession and called for Ukraine’s full membership only after all reforms have been implemented.
Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Taras Kachka stated that some European Union member states, such as Germany, believe that Ukraine’s European integration reforms must prove their irreversibility over the next 10–20 years, but Ukraine does not have that much time to wait.
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