Ukraine optimistic about joining the EU

Hopes in Kyiv as the European Commission says Ukraine should be a candidate for EU membership. We look at the long and hard road ahead to full membership to Europe's exclusive club of 27.

Also, In Ukraine - we meet members of a teenage rock band as they re-unite after being displaced from the war.

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Joining Julian Worricker to discuss these and other issues are Ros Russell, a journalist and author; and Eric Albert, European economic correspondent for the French daily, le Monde, based in London.

(Image: President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen speaks on the application for EU membership submitted by Ukraine. Credit: Getty Images)