European Solidarity backs speedy Rada passage of Kachka-Kos plan bills - Poroshenko

The European Solidarity party faction in Verkhovna Rada will vote for bills it participated in drafting and backs the speedy passage of Euro-integration bills announced by EU Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos and Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Taras Kachka following an informal meeting of Europe ministers in December 2025, the party said on its website on Tuesday.

"Four months ago, the government of Ukraine and the European Commission agreed on the so-called 'Kachka-Kos plan.' Ten steps the parliament was supposed to take. How many steps have been taken in these months? Zero. This is the parliament's responsibility. How many are on the agenda for today, for tomorrow? Zero. We cannot continue to act this way," said MP and European Solidarity party leader Petro Poroshenko during a speech in the Verkhovna Rada.

According to him, European Solidarity is demanding that bills from the Kachka-Kos plan, a ban on the Telegram social network, and the creation of a temporary investigative commission on roads be put to a vote.

"I want to emphasize that the European Solidarity faction will vote for the bills we participated in. We finally had meetings with government representatives. The Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada visited us. And where our proposals have been taken into account, including the military levy, European Solidarity votes will support this," the MP said.

Poroshenko believes the parliament's priorities should be strengthening the Armed Forces and fulfilling Ukraine's EU accession obligations. "Ukraine gained candidate status — it was earned by the victims of Mariupol and Bucha and the heroism of the Armed Forces. And parliament must be adequate to seize this narrow window of opportunity to realize these possibilities," he said.

As previously reported, Ukraine is required to take a number of measures on anti-corruption policy and the rule of law as part of the EU accession process during 2026, including adopting comprehensive amendments to the Criminal Procedure Code and other legislation, strengthening NABU and SAP, relaunching the SBI, appointing Constitutional Court judges and High Council of Justice members, and adopting an Anti-Corruption Strategy and State Anti-Corruption Program. This is outlined in the joint statement by Kos and Kachka published on the EU Delegation to Ukraine's website in December 2025.

It was later reported that Ukraine informally received from the European Union a list of benchmarks (accession criteria) for the last three of six negotiating clusters on EU membership.