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The Verkhovna Rada has registered bill No. 16167, which provides for the establishment of a permanent Representation of the Ukrainian parliament at the European Parliament. The initiators of the document are the Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Ruslan Stefanchuk and his deputies Oleksandr Kornienko and Olena Kondratyuk. This was reported by Glavkom, citing the bill’s card.
The document was registered 19 in October 2026 of the year. Its goal is to legally regulate the creation of a Verkhovna Rada representation at the European Parliament.
The bill provides that the Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada will be able to make decisions on establishing parliamentary representations at EU institutions, international organizations, and their parliamentary bodies. Such representations may operate within the system of Ukraine’s diplomatic service.
In addition, the Speaker will approve the provision on the representation, determine its structure and the maximum number of staff. Financing of the new representation will be carried out from funds already provided in the state budget for the activities of the Verkhovna Rada. As stated in the explanatory note, the bill’s implementation will not require additional expenditures from the state budget.
The authors of the document justify the need for creating the representation by deepening Ukraine’s cooperation with the European Union and Ukraine’s participation in Eurointegration processes.
Currently, the bill has been forwarded to the relevant committee of the Verkhovna Rada on Regulations, Parliamentary Ethics, and Organization of the Parliament’s Work for consideration.
As a reminder, 17 in September 2025 of the year, the President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola, during her visit to Kyiv, opened a permanent European Parliament representation in the Ukrainian capital. She also emphasized that Ukraine will not be left alone, and European partners will continue to support it, including during postwar reconstruction and renewal.
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