2025 Commission report on Ukraine

Tabled by António Tânger Corrêa

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;

Wording as published by the EP, in English. PE783.391