Brussels warns Kyiv that slowing reform delivery risks financial aid and membership momentum. Officials call for a clear shortlist of priorities and faster parliamentary implementation.
In Brussels, there is understanding that the pace of European integration reforms in Ukraine has slowed, particularly within the Ukraine Facility Plan.
This was stated by Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze, head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine, during an interview that reflects the Ukrainian side’s stance on advancing reforms.
European integration context in Brussels
“If anyone in Ukraine wants to believe that the EU does not notice that we have stopped doing our homework, for example within the Ukraine Facility Plan, which is directly tied to funds, and from the perspective of the Ten Points of Kachka-Kos, which were given to us in December to allow prioritizing certain tasks and to demonstrate rapid progress in their implementation, then they are mistaken.”
– Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze
According to her, in Brussels this raises serious concerns: colleagues clearly see that the pace of progress on Ukraine’s side has slowed, and there is growing worry about the EU’s next steps in response to such dynamics.
“Our colleagues very clearly see the real picture, namely that this movement on our part has now slowed down. They are concerned that if Ukraine continues to behave this way, more and more EU member states will ask: what exactly is happening?”
– Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze
She also noted that it is necessary to identify five to ten priority tasks in the European integration direction and begin implementing them. “I think that nothing happens without prioritization,” she stressed.
From European partners’ side, there is emphasis on the need for concrete steps toward implementing bills related to adapting to EU standards and strengthening coordination between the authorities and the parliament to support this course.
Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Taras Kachka said he had begun meetings with parliamentary factions to support the relevant bills.
In sum, Brussels expects Kyiv to accelerate the pace of implementing priorities and to establish clear coordination with European partners to maintain the course toward full membership and to obtain financial support.