In an interview with the online medium tagesschau.de, Gwendolyn Sasse, Principal Investigator at SCRIPTS and director of the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS), spoke about the signal effect that Germany, France, Italy, Romania, and also the EU Commission would support Ukraine's candidate status to join the EU. This could also provide an incentive for reforms and post-war reconstruction, Sasse said. Read the interview here (German).