2025 Commission report on Ukraine

Wording as published by the EP, in English.

1. Amendment 1Rejected

   Recital M a (new)

   Tabled by Pierre-Romain Thionnet, Matthieu Valet · PfE

   Added: Ma. whereas Ukraine’s integration in the EU, could, under a constant budget, result in a 20 % reduction in the support available to farmers in the current Member States; notes that this risk would be further exacerbated by the envisaged reduction of at least 20 % in funds for the next common agricultural policy (CAP), excluding inflation, as well as by the budget’s integration into a single fund, which would deprive the CAP of its budgetary autonomy and effectively relegate it to the status of a secondary EU policy;

2. Amendment 2Rejected

   Recital M b (new)

   Tabled by Pierre-Romain Thionnet, Matthieu Valet, Mieke Andriese · PfE

   Added: Mb. whereas the war in Ukraine, excessive loans and financial instruments and the misguided sanctions policy have contributed to record high energy prices, significant burdens on businesses and households in the EU and raise serious concerns about the security of European taxpayers; whereas Ukraine’s forced and accelerated accession does not serve the interests of EU citizens;

3. Amendment 2Rejected

   Recital M b (new)

   Tabled by Pierre-Romain Thionnet, Matthieu Valet, Mieke Andriese · PfE

   Added: Mb. whereas the war in Ukraine, excessive loans and financial instruments and the misguided sanctions policy have contributed to record high energy prices, significant burdens on businesses and households in the EU and raise serious concerns about the security of European taxpayers; whereas Ukraine’s forced and accelerated accession does not serve the interests of EU citizens;

4. Amendment 3Rejected

   Recital N

   Tabled by António Tânger Corrêa · PfE

   N. whereas Removed: the current Copenhagen criteria require not only formal alignment with EU law but also effective implementation and guarantees of fundamental rights, democracy and Added: EU accession is a merit-based process based on full compliance with the Copenhagen criteria, including the stability of democratic institutions, the rule of Removed: law; whereas each country’s path towards EU integration Added: law, judicial independence, the fight against corruption and respect for fundamental rights; whereas Ukraine, like any other candidate country, must be assessed Removed: on its own merits and no country should be coupled with another or treated as part of a package; Added: strictly on the basis of its fulfilment of those criteria and should not benefit from any preferential treatment or accelerated procedures;

5. Amendment 4Rejected

   Paragraph 31 a (new)

   Tabled by Pierre-Romain Thionnet, Matthieu Valet · PfE

   Added: 31a. Stresses that Ukraine’s accession to the EU would have far-reaching consequences for the EU’s agricultural sector by disrupting the balance of the EU internal market and exerting downward pressure on agricultural prices, to the detriment of farmers in the EU; expresses its concern that Ukraine could become the largest beneficiary of the common agricultural policy (CAP) at a time when its budget is expected to decrease, thereby reducing support available to farmers across the EU;

6. Amendment 5Rejected

   Paragraph 31 b (new)

   Tabled by António Tânger Corrêa · PfE

   Added: 31b. Stresses that any further progress in Ukraine’s accession process should be preceded by a comprehensive assessment of its potential economic and social impact on the EU’s internal market, in critical sectors such as agriculture, employment, industry and the labour market;

7. Amendment 6Rejected

   Paragraph 31 c (new)

   Tabled by Pierre-Romain Thionnet, Matthieu Valet · PfE

   Added: 31c. Expresses concern over the non-respect of the same phytosanitary standards, plant protection and animal welfare rules in Ukraine as those applicable to European farmers, and over the increasing concentration of agricultural land in Ukraine in the hands of investment funds operating large-scale mega-farms, a model that is fundamentally at odds with the family-farming structure that underpins European agriculture;

8. Amendment 7Rejected

   Recital V a (new)

   Tabled by Danilo Della Valle · The Left

   Added: Va. whereas Ukraine’s accession would entail significant budgetary implications for the EU, in particular for the common agricultural policy and cohesion policy; whereas recent studies indicate that enlargement would have substantial redistributive effects on current allocations and could place additional pressure on the EU’s less developed regions, including those in southern Italy;

9. Amendment 9Rejected

   Paragraph 3 b (new)

   Tabled by Özlem Demirel, Danilo Della Valle, Marc Botenga +1 · The Left

   Added: 3b. Calls for the EU and its Member States to prioritise diplomatic engagement and to develop a comprehensive peace initiative for Ukraine under the auspices of the UN and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and a structured multilateral dialogue process involving Ukraine, Russia, the EU, the United States, China and other relevant international actors from the global south; underlines that sustained diplomatic engagement is a necessary condition for ending the war and preventing further loss of life;

10. Amendment 11Adopted

    Paragraph 20

    Tabled by Jonas Sjöstedt, Hanna Gedin · The Left

    … shadow fleet operations, which pose a substantial and growing risk to maritime Removed: safety, Added: safety and the environment, particularly in the strategically vital Baltic Sea; Added: calls in this regard for closer cooperation between authorities in Member States around the Baltic Sea to ensure shadow fleet operations are stopped effectively; urges the Member States to strictly respect EU legislation and halt all …

11. Amendment 12Rejected

    Paragraph 21 a (new)

    Tabled by Özlem Demirel, Danilo Della Valle, Marc Botenga +1 · The Left

    Added: 21a. Firmly opposes any proposal to exclude Ukrainian nationals of military age from the scope of the Temporary Protection Directive1a or to condition their continued protection status on compliance with Ukrainian military mobilisation requirements; recalls that the Temporary Protection Directive is a humanitarian instrument designed to provide immediate protection to persons fleeing armed conflict, and that its application cannot be made conditional on the military or political choices of the country of origin; stresses that the right to seek protection from war as well as the right to conscientious objection are fundamental rights that apply equally to all persons regardless of age or gender, and that the EU Member States have an obligation under international and EU law to ensure that no person is forcibly returned to a country where they face a real risk of being sent to the front line of an active armed conflict; calls on the Commission to issue clear guidance to Member States reaffirming the full and unconditional applicability of the Temporary Protection Directive to all Ukrainian nationals, including persons of military age, and to ensure that no bilateral arrangements between Member States and Ukraine result in the de facto or de jure deprivation of protection status; 1a Council Directive 2001/55/EC of 20 July 2001 on minimum standards for giving temporary protection in the event of a mass influx of displaced persons and on measures promoting a balance of efforts between Member States in receiving such persons and bearing the consequences thereof (OJ L 212, 7.8.2001, p. 12, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2001/55/oj).

12. Amendment 13Rejected

    Paragraph 23 a (new)

    Tabled by Marina Mesure, Manon Aubry, Hanna Gedin +1 · The Left

    Added: 23a. Calls for the cancellation of Ukraine’s foreign debt in order to enable a genuine recovery and reconstruction of its society, based on the highest social and environmental standards and to ensure that when the Ukrainian people regain their independence from the Russian aggressor, they will not fall into a new form of economic dependence;

13. Amendment 14Rejected

    Paragraph 31 a (new)

    Tabled by Danilo Della Valle · The Left

    Added: 31a. Expresses its grave concern about the potential budgetary repercussions of Ukraine’s accession for the EU, in particular with respect to the common agricultural policy (CAP) and the Cohesion Funds; underlines that enlargement must not be pursued to the detriment of regions already suffering from persistent structural and development disparities, including Southern Italy; insists that any accession process be preceded by a comprehensive impact assessment on the most disadvantaged regions of the EU, with particular regard to those classed as ‘less developed’;

14. Amendment 16Rejected

    Paragraph 66 a (new)

    Tabled by Özlem Demirel, Danilo Della Valle, Rudi Kennes · The Left

    Added: 66a. Expresses serious concern regarding the official commemoration at state level of historical figures and organisations responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity, including the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), whose leaders collaborated with Nazi Germany and whose forces were responsible for the mass killing of tens of thousands of Polish and Jewish civilians during the Second World War; notes with concern the presidential decree of May 2026 granting the honorary title of ‘Heroes of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army’ to a unit of Ukraine’s special forces, as well as the state-level reburial ceremony of OUN leader Andriy Melnyk attended by President Zelenskyy on 25 May 2026; calls on the Ukrainian authorities to refrain from state-sponsored commemoration of individuals and organisations implicated in war crimes, to engage in a transparent and honest reckoning with this period of national history, and to prioritise reconciliation with neighbouring countries;

15. Amendment 17Rejected

    Paragraph 71 a (new)

    Tabled by Özlem Demirel, Danilo Della Valle, Marc Botenga +2 · The Left

    Added: 71a. Highlights the negative effects of trade liberalisation and structural reforms on Ukraine’s agricultural sector; urges the Commission to carry out a comprehensive social impact assessment of the accession process on rural communities and smallholders; stresses that land ownership transparency and anti-monopoly regulations must be enforced before further integration of agricultural markets;

16. Amendment 18Rejected

    Paragraph 108 a (new)

    Tabled by Marina Mesure, Manon Aubry · The Left

    Added: 108a. Expresses the gravest concern at the repeated attacks on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant; underlines that a nuclear accident at Europe’s largest power plant would be a catastrophe with consequences that would be transboundary and irreversible; calls on all parties to unconditionally halt any and all military action that could endanger the power plant; calls on the EU Member States to support the deployment of UN peacekeepers to protect Ukraine’s nuclear reactors, in close cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency; stresses that the UN General Assembly possesses subsidiary decision-making powers under Resolution 377 A in cases where the Security Council is unable to act;

17. Amendment 19Rejected

    Paragraph 29

    Tabled by Adam Bielan · ECR

    … that Ukraine has made substantial progress towards the opening of negotiating clusters; Removed: salutes the March 2026 European Council’s invitation to the Council to open all negotiating clusters without delay and calls on the Council to act immediately to follow up on that decision, starting with the fundamentals cluster; Added: stresses that no negotiating clusters can be opened as long as Ukraine refuses to recognise the ethnic cleansing campaign carried out by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) against Poles as well as its mass atrocities committed against the Jewish population; meanwhile, welcomes the decision by the Commission and the Cyprus Presidency of …

18. Amendment 20Rejected

    Paragraph 33

    Tabled by Adam Bielan · ECR

    … such matters must rather be addressed through open dialogue and genuine cooperation; Added: stresses that Ukraine must denounce the ideology, symbolism and actions of the UPA, acknowledge the mass crimes committed against the Polish and Jewish populations, and conduct exhumations and proper burials of victims of these crimes, in order to conform with European values; highlights that the UPA is responsible for the crime of genocide committed against the Polish people with an estimated 100 000 victims – most of whom were women and children – which is widely regarded as one of the largest ethnic cleansing campaigns in wartime eastern Europe; strongly condemns the fact that many people associated with the policies and operations that resulted in these killings are regarded as national heroes in Ukraine including, but not limited to, Stepan Bandera, Roman Shukhevych and Dmytro Klyachkivsky;

19. Amendment 21Rejected

    Paragraph 61 a (new)

    Tabled by Adam Bielan · ECR

    Added: 61a. Recognises the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) as an organisation aligned with Nazi ideology and responsible for mass atrocities against the civilian population, the glorification of which is incompatible with European values;

20. Amendment 22Rejected

    Paragraph 61 b (new)

    Tabled by Adam Bielan · ECR

    Added: 61b. Expresses its concern over reports from certain local authorities in Member States, including Denmark, regarding instances of young people from Ukrainian refugee communities displaying symbols directly associated with Nazi ideology, which also constitute the symbolism of the UPA, whose members were responsible for mass crimes against Polish and Jewish civilians in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia; stresses the importance of historical education, intercultural dialogue and the unequivocal condemnation of all manifestations of Nazism, antisemitism, xenophobia and the glorification of perpetrators of war crimes;

21. Amendment 33Adopted

    Paragraph 30

    Tabled by Michael Gahler · PPE

    … cease using Ukraine’s EU membership prospect in domestic politics and political campaigning; Added: welcomes the opening of the first fundamental cluster of accession negotiations and expects that subsequent clusters will follow suit:

22. Amendment 35Adopted

    Paragraph 32 a (new)

    Tabled by Andrzej Halicki, Michael Gahler · PPE

    Added: 32a. Recalls its previously adopted position on the Volhynia massacre, regrets the recent unnecessary and unprovoked escalation by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy by renaming an elite military unit of the Ukrainian Armed Forces after the heroes of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA); regrets the disregard for Polish sensitivities and grief related to the UPA’s estimated many tens of thousands of victims and their families, especially in the light of Poland’s steadfast support for Ukraine’s fight against Russian aggression; considers that this decision undermines neighbourly relations and previous efforts to address unresolved and painful aspects of bilateral historical relations in a spirit of true and sincere reconciliation and is not in line with European values; calls for de-escalation and renewed efforts in good faith towards reconciliation;

23. Amendment 35Adopted

    Paragraph 32 a (new)

    Tabled by Andrzej Halicki, Michael Gahler · PPE

    Added: 32a. Recalls its previously adopted position on the Volhynia massacre, regrets the recent unnecessary and unprovoked escalation by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy by renaming an elite military unit of the Ukrainian Armed Forces after the heroes of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA); regrets the disregard for Polish sensitivities and grief related to the UPA’s estimated many tens of thousands of victims and their families, especially in the light of Poland’s steadfast support for Ukraine’s fight against Russian aggression; considers that this decision undermines neighbourly relations and previous efforts to address unresolved and painful aspects of bilateral historical relations in a spirit of true and sincere reconciliation and is not in line with European values; calls for de-escalation and renewed efforts in good faith towards reconciliation;

24. Amendment 35Adopted

    Paragraph 32 a (new)

    Tabled by Andrzej Halicki, Michael Gahler · PPE

    Added: 32a. Recalls its previously adopted position on the Volhynia massacre, regrets the recent unnecessary and unprovoked escalation by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy by renaming an elite military unit of the Ukrainian Armed Forces after the heroes of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA); regrets the disregard for Polish sensitivities and grief related to the UPA’s estimated many tens of thousands of victims and their families, especially in the light of Poland’s steadfast support for Ukraine’s fight against Russian aggression; considers that this decision undermines neighbourly relations and previous efforts to address unresolved and painful aspects of bilateral historical relations in a spirit of true and sincere reconciliation and is not in line with European values; calls for de-escalation and renewed efforts in good faith towards reconciliation;

25. Amendment 35Adopted

    Paragraph 32 a (new)

    Tabled by Andrzej Halicki, Michael Gahler · PPE

    Added: 32a. Recalls its previously adopted position on the Volhynia massacre, regrets the recent unnecessary and unprovoked escalation by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy by renaming an elite military unit of the Ukrainian Armed Forces after the heroes of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA); regrets the disregard for Polish sensitivities and grief related to the UPA’s estimated many tens of thousands of victims and their families, especially in the light of Poland’s steadfast support for Ukraine’s fight against Russian aggression; considers that this decision undermines neighbourly relations and previous efforts to address unresolved and painful aspects of bilateral historical relations in a spirit of true and sincere reconciliation and is not in line with European values; calls for de-escalation and renewed efforts in good faith towards reconciliation;

26. Amendment 35Adopted

    Paragraph 32 a (new)

    Tabled by Andrzej Halicki, Michael Gahler · PPE

    Added: 32a. Recalls its previously adopted position on the Volhynia massacre, regrets the recent unnecessary and unprovoked escalation by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy by renaming an elite military unit of the Ukrainian Armed Forces after the heroes of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA); regrets the disregard for Polish sensitivities and grief related to the UPA’s estimated many tens of thousands of victims and their families, especially in the light of Poland’s steadfast support for Ukraine’s fight against Russian aggression; considers that this decision undermines neighbourly relations and previous efforts to address unresolved and painful aspects of bilateral historical relations in a spirit of true and sincere reconciliation and is not in line with European values; calls for de-escalation and renewed efforts in good faith towards reconciliation;

27. Amendment 39Rejected

    Paragraph 60 a (new)

    Tabled by Anna Bryłka · PfE

    Added: 60a. Notes the Council conclusions of 9-10 June 2011 on the memory of the crimes committed by totalitarian regimes in Europe and calls on Ukraine to end the public glorification of individuals or formations responsible for crimes against civilian populations, especially the genocide committed by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) faction of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) during the Volhynia massacre in 1943, which primarily targeted ethnic Poles, as well as Jewish, Czech and Armenian minority populations;

28. Amendment 49Rejected

    Recital L a (new)

    Tabled by Stanisław Tyszka, Marcin Sypniewski, Petar Volgin · ESN

    Added: La. whereas several units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), such as the 422nd Independent Unmanned Systems Regiment, the ‘Nakhtigal’ Battalion of the 20th Operational Brigade ‘Lubart’ and the 3rd Independent Assault Brigade of the AFU continue to use Nazi symbols and names; whereas the name of the ‘Nakhtigal’ Battalion is a direct reference to Sondergruppe Nachtigall, unofficially called ‘Battalion Ukrainische Gruppe Nachtigall’, which, according to the Yad Vashem institute, committed the massacre of four thousand Jews in Lviv in June and July 1941;

29. Amendment 50Rejected

    Recital L b (new)

    Tabled by Stanisław Tyszka, Marcin Sypniewski, Petar Volgin · ESN

    Added: Lb. whereas since May 2026 Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been a Distinguished Member of the European Order of Merit; whereas the European Order of Merit was established to honour individuals who have made significant contributions to European unity, democracy or to the promotion and defence of European reconciliation; whereas former leader of Solidarność and former President of Poland Lech Wałęsa, who is also a Distinguished Member of the European Order of Merit, declared that Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s decision to name one of Ukraine’s special operations forces unit Heroes of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) is a personal insult to him and all murdered Poles; whereas, in light of these concerns, the Selection Committee of the European Order of Merit should revoke Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s membership of the Order;

30. Amendment 51Rejected

    Recital L c (new)

    Tabled by Stanisław Tyszka, Marcin Sypniewski, Petar Volgin · ESN

    Added: Lc. whereas in Ukraine history textbooks such as ‘Zakhyst Ukrayiny’ issued in 2023 and used in 10th grade in Ukrainian schools present falsified narrative that relativises the Volhynian genocide and the crimes of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA); whereas such textbooks present Stepan Bandera, Roman Shukhevych and the UPA as heroes of the Ukrainian independence movement without mentioning their full role in crimes committed by UPA forces in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia against Poles, Jews, Czechs, Russians, Armenians, other minorities and Ukrainians who opposed their actions; whereas the textbook presents a narrative in which UPA members never acted against the civilian population and all acts of terror against civilians were committed by soviet agents in disguise;

31. Amendment 52Rejected

    Recital Q a (new)

    Tabled by Petar Volgin, Tomasz Froelich, Stanisław Tyszka +1 · ESN

    Added: Qa. whereas Ukrainian anti-corruption authorities launched a major investigation known as Operation Midas into an alleged large-scale corruption scheme in the energy sector involving kickbacks from suppliers to the state nuclear operator Energoatom and other state-owned enterprises; whereas investigators uncovered a network suspected of demanding kickbacks in exchange for procurement contracts, conducted numerous searches and seizures, and brought criminal charges against several individuals; whereas the investigation reportedly implicated businessman Timur Mindich and other high-ranking officials linked to the energy sector; whereas investigators and media reports have referred to alleged illicit payments, recorded communications and frequent contacts between Mindich and Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the context of the broader investigation; whereas Andriy Yermak, former Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, was named as a suspect by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) in a money-laundering investigation linked to the broader Operation Midas case; whereas these allegations raise serious concerns regarding corruption, political influence and governance standards in Ukraine;

32. Amendment 53Rejected

    Paragraph 3 a (new)

    Tabled by Petar Volgin, Stanislav Stoyanov, Roberto Vannacci +1 · ESN

    Added: 3a. Calls for the EU and its Member States to prioritise diplomatic and political efforts aimed at achieving a sustainable end to the conflict in Ukraine and preventing its further prolongation, stressing that the primary objective of EU policy should be the restoration of peace and stability on the European continent; underlines that any security guarantees or defence commitments in relation to Ukraine remain a sovereign decision and competence of individual Member States; notes that increased security and defence cooperation between Ukraine, the EU and its Member States has required substantial financial resources from Member States and European taxpayers;

33. Amendment 54Rejected

    Paragraph 25 a (new)

    Tabled by Petar Volgin, Stanislav Stoyanov, Stanisław Tyszka +2 · ESN

    Added: 25a. Reiterates that Ukraine’s accession process must remain strictly merit-based and transparent and that the same accession criteria should be applied equally to all candidate countries; stresses that Ukraine’s accession should not be subject to different standards from those applied to previous enlargements or to the candidate countries from the Western Balkans, and opposes shortcuts or alternative forms of integration that could undermine the EU’s values, decision-making capacity, legislative framework, institutional functioning or the credibility of the enlargement process;

34. Amendment 55Rejected

    Paragraph 26 a (new)

    Tabled by Petar Volgin, Tomasz Froelich, Stanisław Tyszka +2 · ESN

    Added: 26a. Emphasises that Ukraine’s institutional capacity, rule of law framework and economic stability remain insufficient to justify accelerated accession negotiations; warns that politically motivated enlargement decisions and the fast-tracking of Ukraine’s accession without substantial anti-corruption reforms risk importing systemic corruption into the EU and weakening its institutional integrity;

35. Amendment 56Rejected

    Paragraph 26 b (new)

    Tabled by Tomasz Froelich, Petar Volgin, Stanisław Tyszka +2 · ESN

    Added: 26b. Is deeply concerned that Ukraine’s accession to the EU would undermine the common agricultural policy, strongly impact the cohesion policy and lead to further migration waves, brain drain and labour market disruptions; emphasises that enlarging the EU to include Ukraine comes with serious geostrategic risks, raises severe concerns with regard to border security and human smuggling, and makes the EU more vulnerable to the instrumentalisation of migration by foreign powers;

36. Amendment 57Rejected

    Paragraph 33 a (new)

    Tabled by Tomasz Froelich, Alexander Sell, Christine Anderson +2 · ESN

    Added: 33a. Notes that 4.33 million people fleeing Ukraine were under temporary protection in the EU in November 2025; welcomes the Commission announcement of 26 June 2026 to the effect that temporary protection should not, as a rule, be granted to newly arriving Ukrainian nationals who are not authorised to leave Ukraine in view of their military obligations; calls on Ukrainian men of military age to return to Ukraine; encourages Member States to adapt their asylum, reception and temporary protection policies accordingly;

37. Amendment 58Rejected

    Paragraph 33 b (new)

    Tabled by Tomasz Froelich, Stanisław Tyszka, Marcin Sypniewski +3 · ESN

    Added: 33b. Recalls that, since the start of the war in Ukraine, Poland, together with other EU Member States, has emerged as a major refuge for Ukrainians, providing extensive aid to Ukrainian refugees, including housing, financial assistance, access to education and medical care; strongly condemns the decision by the President of Ukraine on 26 May 2026 to grant a Ukrainian military unit the name ‘Heroes of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army’; recalls that this formation was responsible for the genocide in Volhynia and mass crimes against Poles, Jews, Czechs, Russians, Armenians, other minorities and Ukrainians who opposed their actions, with some 100 000 to 120 000 victims; considers the prompt exhumation and proper burial of victims as a moral duty and an essential step towards justice, reconciliation and the strengthening of Polish-Ukrainian relations;

38. Amendment 59Rejected

    Paragraph 33 c (new)

    Tabled by Stanisław Tyszka, Marcin Sypniewski, Petar Volgin · ESN

    Added: 33c. Condemns the use of Nazi names and symbols by the Armed Forces of Ukraine; invites Ukraine to review the content of history textbooks used in Ukrainian schools with a view to presenting historical events in a balanced and evidence-based manner, thereby promoting mutual understanding and reconciliation between Ukraine and Poland; notes that praising Nazi collaborators responsible for crimes against ethnic minorities is against European values, making Ukraine’s EU membership impossible;

39. Amendment 61Rejected

    Paragraph 52 b (new)

    Tabled by Petar Volgin, Tomasz Froelich, Stanisław Tyszka +2 · ESN

    Added: 52b. Calls on the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) to play an even more effective role in monitoring, investigating and preventing the misuse of EU funds allocated to Ukraine, and stresses the need for enhanced oversight, transparency and accountability mechanisms; calls on the European Court of Auditors and the Commission to conduct a comprehensive audit of the EU financial assistance provided to Ukraine since 2022, including macro-financial assistance, military support, reconstruction funds and budgetary aid;

40. Amendment 62Rejected

    Paragraph 52 c (new)

    Tabled by Petar Volgin, Marcin Sypniewski · ESN

    Added: 52c. Calls on the Commission and the Council to suspend further steps in Ukraine’s EU accession negotiations until the country demonstrates measurable and independently verified progress in combating corruption, dismantling organised crime networks and ensuring transparency in the use of international financial assistance;

41. Amendment 63Rejected

    Paragraph 65 a (new)

    Tabled by Petar Volgin · ESN

    Added: 65a. Condemns the increasing religious persecution against the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, one of the largest religious communities in Ukraine with millions of believers, including police raids on monasteries and churches, seizures of religious property and the opening of criminal proceedings against numerous members of the clergy; recalls that international organisations, including Human Rights Watch and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, have warned that such measures violate freedom of religion and impose collective punishment on peaceful believers; stresses that religious persecution, criminal prosecution of clergy and restrictions on religious communities are incompatible with the fundamental rights and rule-of-law standards required of countries seeking membership of the EU;