The European Union just isn’t presently contemplating the opportunity of decoupling Ukraine and Moldova’s paths in the direction of EU membership, regardless of a current declare by Romanian President Nicușor Dan.

Supply: an article by European Pravda editor Sergiy Sydorenko and Brussels-based journalist Tetiana Vysotska

Particulars: Dan introduced on 26 June that the primary negotiating cluster for Moldova could be opened subsequent week throughout a Moldova-EU summit on 4 July.

Nonetheless, Dan needed to retract his phrases later that day, saying he had made a "mistake".

His declare was questionable even from a procedural standpoint, as the choice to open a negotiating cluster wouldn’t be made at a summit, and the summit contributors should not have the authority to make such an announcement with out the settlement of all 27 EU member states.

"The difficulty of decoupling Moldova and Ukraine within the EU accession negotiations is presently not on the agenda," a European Council official confirmed to European Pravda on situation of anonymity.

A number of sources in Brussels have instructed European Pravda that the EU is presently making each effort to reveal that the choice of separating the accession processes of Ukraine and Moldova just isn’t into account.

"That is additionally mirrored within the paperwork: the conclusions on Moldova and Ukraine concerning EU enlargement are similar phrase for phrase," the article states.

Nonetheless, the authors level out that though the EU summit failed to succeed in consensus on the paragraph regarding Ukraine because of Hungary’s opposition, the paragraph on Moldova’s accession was supported by all 27 EU member states.

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