🇪🇺Council President @CharlesMichel giving a press conference with 🇺🇦President @ZelenskyyUa now in #Kyiv.
Zelensky says he personally appreciates Michel’s visit despite the security challenges.
video.consilium.europa.eu/event/en/25730
Zelensky: “On 🇪🇺 membership we have discussed that this is a priority for our country.”
“We are waiting, we have answered the questionnaire. So we are waiting on the meeting on this very important issue for our country”
🇪🇺Council President Michel: “This morning I went to #Borodyanka to see the situation with my own eyes. There are no words to explain what I feel… these are atrocities, war crimes”
“It must be punished. They must pay for what they have done there any in many other cities in 🇺🇦”
#Zelenskyy says he needs further sanctions and weapons from 🇪🇺.
"I am grateful for the [existing] 🇪🇺€1.5 billion for funding the military needs of the armed forces of #Ukraine. We've agreed for us to get the weapons that are a priority for us."
On whether 🇺🇦 will ever be in 🇪🇺 Michel says: "this is a legal process, it's also a political process"
EU PMs and presidents agreed in Versailles to "start the political debate" but "it's not a secret there are different opinions around the table on the principle of enlargement"
Michel says once Commission publishes its opinion in June on whether 🇺🇦 meets criteria to be an 🇪🇺 candidate country, he will decide when to put the issue to the Council for discussion.
"This meeting today was extremely useful because we discussed concrete elements" of accession
Zelensky asked whether he's frustrated with Germany for not being ready to say yes to an embargo of #RussianOil
"🇪🇺countries, because of their unity and because of what happened in 🇺🇦, seem to me to be ready to introduce an oil embargo"
(Wonder what Michel told him privately🤔)
President Michel: "I'm convinced, and I said it in 🇪🇺 parliament a few weeks ago, that sooner or later we will target 🇷🇺 oil & gas."
"We've already decided we want to stop our dependencies as soon as possible."
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