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Today, the European Commission published its seventh annual Rule of Law Report, assessing the state of the rule of law across all EU Member States, as well as four candidate countries: Albania, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia.

The Rule of Law Report is the Commission's annual preventive and monitoring tool for taking stock of rule of law developments across all EU Member States, as well as four enlargement countries.

At the EU-Ukraine Defence Industry Forum in Kyiv, the European Commission presented financing opportunities available under Pillar II of the Ukraine Facility to support dual-use and defence-related projects in Ukraine.

It is a great honour to be back in Kyiv on this very special Day of Ukrainian Statehood. President Zelenskyy, dear Volodymyr, I want to thank you personally for the great privilege you are bestowing on me with this first-ever Order of Europe.

Today, the 28th meeting of the Accession Conference with Montenegro provisionally closed accession negotiations on competition policy (chapter 8) and customs union (chapter 29).

Today, the EU and the Republic of Moldova took another important step in the accession process by opening negotiations on the so-called ‘external relations’ cluster.

Today, the EU and Ukraine took another important step in the accession process by opening negotiations on the so-called 'external relations' cluster (Cluster 6).

Today, the ninth meeting of the Accession Conference with Albania provisionally closed the first negotiating chapters on science and research (25), education and culture (26), and external relations (30).

Tomorrow, Europe pays its tribute to the memory of over 8,300 Bosniak men and boys who were killed in the Srebrenica genocide 31 years ago. Our thoughts are with the families of the victims of the genocide.