This coming Saturday, July 1, Spain assumes the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union. And the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, wanted the first act of the semester of the Spanish presidency to be to travel to Kyiv to, as reported by Moncloa, “make visible through his presence there the European Union’s seamless support for Ukraine in all fields: military, humanitarian and economic”.
During his speech by videoconference before the European Council held in Brussels, President Volodímir Zelensky confirmed this trip, the third by President Pedro Sánchez to Ukraine since the invasion of Russia began in February 2022, and stressed that he has high hopes in the next Spanish rotating presidency of the EU. “For the first time, the start of the European presidency will be marked by a visit to Ukraine,” Zelensky celebrated. A fact that he has highlighted as very “symbolic”.
“Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine and its consequences will be a priority during the Spanish semester,” Spanish government sources point out. “We will strengthen the commitment to the stabilization, recovery and reconstruction of Ukraine,” they say.
“We will be by the side of the Ukrainian people for as long as necessary”, they settle in Moncloa.
