Belgium (Brussels Morning Newspaper), European parliament president Roberta Metsola’s visit in Kyiv on Europe Day demonstrated, she said, the Parliament’s continued support and commitment to Ukraine and its European path.
In Kyiv on 9 May, Metsola met with the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal, addressed the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and met its Chairman Ruslan Stefanchuk.
Presidents Metsola and Zelenskyy discussed Ukraine’s EU accession negotiations, the upcoming Peace Summit in Switzerland, and the European Parliament’s support for President Zelenskyy’s 10-point peace plan, air defense, sanctions against Russia and the use of profits from Russian frozen assets for Ukraine’s defense and recovery.
President Metsola was decorated with President Zelenskyy’s Order of Merit, First Class.
Presidents Zelenskyy and Metsola spoke to the press after their meeting. President Metsola said, “The European Parliament will help Ukraine in any way possible to advance on all the necessary steps on its European path.
“We will remain as vocal as ever on Ukraine, as my visit today also demonstrates.”
“This year marks 20 years of the accession of my home country, Malta, and along with it, nine other Member States, to the European Union. I have seen the transformative effect of the European Union enlargement. The opportunities and security that come with it. As today the people of Ukraine are looking to Europe, with the same sense of hope and belief in our common future that we had then, Europe cannot be the one to look away.
“You will win and our future will be a common one. Slava Ukraini!”
