Published January 22,2025
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The reconstruction of Ukraine, the place Russia continues its “special military operation” since February 2022, will in all probability be the “project of the century,” the nation’s overseas minister stated Wednesday.
“I would like to raise reconstruction in Ukraine. It will be, probably the project, project of the century. It will be also, it seems to me, a trigger for EU economy. It will be an opportunity for EU economy, for EU companies,” Andrii Sybiha instructed a panel dialogue on the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland.
Damages in Ukraine are estimated at round €600 billion ($626 billion), he stated, stressing that this presents “huge challenges and huge opportunities.”
Sybiha stated greater than 90% of the Ukrainian inhabitants helps EU membership, including that Ukraine “must achieve long lasting, just comprehensive peace, because security of Europe and security of Ukraine is indivisible.”
He known as on the 27-member bloc for extra “unity” within the face of the present “geopolitical challenges” together with the “brutal Russian aggression.” Sybiha, on this context, harassed the necessity to forestall “abusing or misusing of the right of veto of some EU members.”
“I think it is inappropriate to blackmail, for example, publicly, future EU members of possibility to block them on their way to EU,” he added.
EU Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos, for her half, hailed the solidarity proven by EU members on this difficult interval, and stated: “They support each other and this geopolitics have also brought more solidarity … It is more solidarity among the member states towards the candidate countries.”
RUSSIAN WAR ‘CHANGED EVERYTHING’
Croatia’s Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic stated the Russian conflict in Ukraine “changed everything,” and that it pushed the bloc to extend its protection expenditure to 2% of their GDP.
He stated this led to Ukraine, Moldova, and Georgia being moved from the “neighboring countries” class to the “enlargement pot.”
“Had there not been the February of 2022 we will be in a very different situation,” Plenkovic added.
Montenegro’s Prime Minister Milojko Spajic stated EU accession was not a contest, however a path for candidates to “develop better, to be better market economies, to have rule of law, to have more fair society, to have more democratic institutions.”
“We feel Ukraine is part of the wider region, and we feel we have common destiny, and we want to see Ukraine progress as fast as possible,” he added.
Source: www.anews.com.tr