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Weekend: European Commission welcomes Ukraine's membership

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European Commission welcomes Ukraine's membership

02/07/2022 GMT

BBC World Service - Weekend, European Commission welcomes Ukraine's membership

Ursula von der Leyen welcomes Ukraine's membership application to join the European Union

Ursula von der Leyen welcomes Ukraine's membership application to join the European Union.

As Russian forces continue their attacks on the eastern Ukrainian city of Lysychansk, the president of the European Commission stresses that she welcomes its application to join the European Union.

Also, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Yemen tells us about crowdfunding efforts to help secure an oil tanker that's been stranded off the country's coast for several years.

Joining Julian Worricker to discuss these and other issues are Maya Goodfellow, a British academic and author specialising in race and immigration; and Anatol Lieven, director of the Eurasia Programme at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft in Washington DC.

(Image: Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, during a news conference. Credit: Milan Jaros/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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