During his speech in the Verkhovna Rada, Petro Poroshenko called on the people’s deputies not to ignore the demands of Ukraine’s European partners, which were recorded in the European Parliament Resolution of September 9, 2025.
“This week is essential for the work of our parliament and Ukraine. This week, in accordance with the Constitution, the government submits the budget to the Verkhovna Rada. This week, the Government’s Action Program is proposed to us. And right now we have to analyze an essential document adopted by the European Parliament – the Resolution on Ukraine, which is based on the report for 2023-24,” Poroshenko emphasized.
“It is based on two basic positions of support for Ukraine: security, freedom, and democracy. Unfortunately, neither the Government Action Program, the budget, nor today’s agenda of the Verkhovna Rada reflects any issue that Europe demands of us,” the leader of “Eurosolidarity” stated.
“What is it talking about? The first priority is financing the Armed Forces. And this means closing cashbacks and telethons,” Poroshenko noted.
“The second position: freedom and democracy. And this means parliamentary pluralism, parliamentary diplomacy, and lifting the ban on international activity. This means the impossibility of using law enforcement agencies to persecute the opposition. This means implementing the commitments to reboot the State Bureau of Investigation, an instrument of pressure on the opposition. This means rebooting Finmonitoring, the corruption mechanism of its leadership, which steals money from constructing fortifications,” Poroshenko noted.
He also thanked the European Parliament for honoring the memory of Andriy Parubiy.
As is known, the European Parliament in its Resolution on Ukraine, in particular, called on the Ukrainian authorities to refrain from untimely and politically motivated legal proceedings and sanctions against opposition representatives, as well as to support parliamentary pluralism and promote a constructive dialogue between political factions in the Verkhovna Rada; to lift all restrictions on travel abroad for members of the Verkhovna Rada; called on Ukraine to consider structural reform of the State Bureau of Investigation with a view to strengthening its independence and efficiency to prevent abuses in connection with election campaigns; called for the restoration of full-fledged nationwide broadcasting for media providers as a matter of policy, resolutely rejecting further slide towards political censorship, etc.