The European Commission agrees to start negotiations on EU membership with Ukraine and Moldova. And Georgia is to be granted candidate status.

European top officials, the Ukrainian government, and the opposition are almost unanimous in calling the decision a historic positive. "This is a very serious stage that Ukraine has reached today in the 10 years of our struggle for our strategic dream," MP Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze (European Solidarity faction), chairperson of the parliamentary committee on European integration, tells LIGA.net.

But there are two new challenges ahead: to approve the European Commission's recommendation with the consent of all 27 EU member states and to get a fresh "framework for negotiations" by fulfilling the new requirements of the European Union. To put things simply, there are four of them.

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