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The last meters in the conquest of Everest. This is how Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky sees the path that the country needs to go through to achieve the status of a member of the European Union.
“Imagine conquering Everest. They won the penultimate point, did not look back, did not stop to get some air or talk about what is missing to the very top,” the head of state explained. “How difficult it will be to pass the last 1848 meters. We instantly forget and devalue our own success.”
In a daily speech published in website of the presidency you can read that for Zelensky, “the first seven thousand meters” of the path must always be remembered and the Ukrainian people “are not ashamed to talk about their achievements.”
“Privatization, agrarian reform, free voting, decentralization, an anti-corruption court, administrative service centers, online public services, concepts, a single airspace, a visa-free industrial regime and “deoligarchy”,” Zelensky listed a few steps. throughout the country to meet the requirements for applying to the European Union. “A lot has been done, we can’t forget it.”
Regarding the “expulsion of the Russians” from the territory, the Ukrainian leader asked the citizens not to rejoice at the “clapping” of Moscow, but to be proud of Ukraine.
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