Ukraine has received a «B» grade for progress towards EU accession - «an impressive result in the most difficult conditions»
Ukraine has demonstrated Significant progress in implementing reforms, necessary for accession to the European Union, having received grade «B» in the rating of candidates prepared by the Politico.
European candidates according to Politico
The journalists assessed the success of the candidate countries in completing their «reform homework» according to the American grading system, where «A» - the highest, а «F» - the lowest assessment.
The results look like this:
🇲🇪 Montenegro - A
🇦🇱 Albania - A-.
🇲🇩 Moldova - B+
🇺🇦 Ukraine - B
🇲🇰 North Macedonia - C
🇷🇸 Serbia - D
🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina - D
🇬🇪 Georgia - F
What Politico says
The authors emphasised that The assessment of Ukraine is particularly significant, The country is facing a challenging time, given the full-scale war with Russia and the extremely difficult environment in which it continues to implement anti-corruption, judicial and economic reforms.
«This is an impressive result in the most difficult circumstances,» the article says. Politico.
Context.
A high score can be an additional argument in favour of opening of negotiations on Ukraine's accession to the EU, expected at the end of 2025.
For comparison, Georgia was at the bottom of the ranking due to The government's pro-Russian policy, election fraud and suppression of peaceful protests.
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