EU enlargement is without doubt one of the priorities of Denmark's presidency of the European Union and Copenhagen would love Ukraine and Moldova to maneuver ahead on this path concurrently.

Supply: Danish Ambassador to the EU Carsten Grønbech-Jensen in response to a question from a European Pravda correspondent in Brussels on 30 June

Particulars: Denmark, which is able to maintain the EU Council presidency from 1 July, will search to make sure that Ukraine and Moldova conduct negotiations on EU membership on the identical tempo.

"We need to advance with Ukraine and Moldova concurrently, and we’re in the meanwhile enthusiastic about how to have the ability to do this," Grønbech-Jensen emphasised.

The ambassador famous that the EU is going through difficulties in fulfilling this job with regard to Ukraine, "as a result of we wouldn’t have unanimous assist", referring to Ukraine’s evaluation that it is able to open negotiation clusters.

"There are authorized constraints, there are political constraints, and if I shared our concerns with you right here, I'm unsure we might be capable to transfer alongside so shortly," stated Grønbech-Jensen.

"We need to transfer ahead, and hopefully we will do this, however it's not easy," he added.

Background:

• Earlier, hypothesis arose that the EU would possibly pace up accession talks with Moldova by decoupling them from Ukraine, whose course of Hungary has blocked.
• In the meantime, Brussels is growing a state of affairs for "parallel negotiations" on Ukraine's accession to the EU, bypassing Hungary. The primary steps have been taken, although officers desire to not announce this.

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