The President’s Office may soon “lose” two senior officials, Ukrainian MP and First Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament) Finance Committee, Yaroslav Zheleznyak, said in an interview with NV Radio on Nov. 22.
Yuriy Shchyhol, ousted from the position of the head of the State Special Communications and Information Protection Service of Ukraine, is under suspicion of misappropriating state funds amounting to UAH 62 million ($1.8 million), the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) reported.
The European Union’s executive arm formally recommended opening membership talks with Ukraine and Moldova and proceeding to the next steps in the accession process once they complete a series of
Ukraine and Moldova received recommendations to begin formal negotiations on their accession to the European Union, and Georgia received a recommendation to get candidate status, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced on Nov. 8. “Today is a historic day because today the Commission recommends that the council opens accession negotiations with Ukraine and with Moldova," von der Leyen said.
The European Union’s executive arm formally recommended opening membership talks with Ukraine and Moldova and proceeding to the next steps in the accession process once they complete a series of