The President of the European Commission will hold meetings with the government of Ukraine in Kyiv today. President von der Leyen is accompanied by fifteen members of the EU’s College of Commissioners including Ireland’s Mairead McGuinness.
It will be the first ever EU College to Government meeting with Ukraine. And it comes ahead of an EU-Ukraine summit tomorrow.
This morning the EU commissioner Johannes Hahn explained the purpose of the visit during his address to the European Parliament in Brussels.
Out words: diplomatic outreach
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