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Weekend: Ukraine optimistic about joining the EU

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Ukraine optimistic about joining the EU

19/06/2022 GMT

BBC World Service - Weekend, Ukraine optimistic about joining the EU

Hopes in Ukraine as European Commission gives the nod to Kyiv's EU candidacy

Hopes in Ukraine as European Commission gives the nod to Kyiv's EU candidacy.

Hopes in Kyiv as the European Commission says Ukraine should be a candidate for EU membership. We look at the long and hard road ahead to full membership to Europe's exclusive club of 27.

Also, In Ukraine - we meet members of a teenage rock band as they re-unite after being displaced from the war.

Final round of voting for parliamentary elections under way n France

Joining Julian Worricker to discuss these and other issues are Ros Russell, a journalist and author; and Eric Albert, European economic correspondent for the French daily, le Monde, based in London.

(Image: President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen speaks on the application for EU membership submitted by Ukraine. Credit: Getty Images)

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