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The European Union approved formal candidate status for Ukraine, just four months after it applied. While actual negotiations for membership are some way off, the political signal is clear. In a reference to former President Viktor Yanukovych stopping Ukraine from signing an association agreement with the EU, which sparked the Maiden protests and the collapse of his pro-Russian government, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen stated that the Commission “acknowledges the immense progress that [Ukrainian] democracy has achieved since the Maiden protests of 2014 [.]” Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said that the decision helps “draw a line under decades of ambiguity and set it in stone: Ukraine is Europe, not part of the ‘Russian world.”
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