War in Ukraine: “total consensus” of the 27 on kyiv’s candidacy for the EU

A “total consensus” emerged to grant Ukraine EU candidate status during discussions on Tuesday between the 27 European Affairs ministers meeting in Luxembourg, French Minister Clément Beaune said, two days before a decisive summit. A “total consensus” emerged to grant Ukraine EU candidate status during discussions on Tuesday between the European Affairs Ministers of the 27 meeting in Luxembourg, said French Minister Clément Beaune, two days before a decisive summit. The European Commission issued a positive opinion on Friday on granting Ukraine and Moldova the status of candidate to the European Union, which would pave the way for membership after a long process. The discussion this Tuesday between the ministers in Luxembourg “made it possible to show a broad consensus, I would even say a total consensus (…) in particular with regard to Ukraine, the possibility of recognizing the status of candidate in the best deadlines”, declared Mr. Beaune, whose country holds the rotating presidency of the Council of the EU. “It is a debate which will now belong to the heads of state and government” meeting at the summit this Thursday and this Friday in Brussels, he added. Not an immediate membership “We have worked so that European unity can manifest itself again, that we live an important, positive, perhaps even historic moment on this weekend on this subject “, continued Clément Beaune. “An accession process does not mean immediate accession”, nevertheless reminded the Minister Delegate for Europe. “Precisely because this process is demanding and long, we will have to consider not as alternatives but as complements, additional actions, it is in this spirit that the President of the Republic had evoked in recent weeks a European political community”, he recalled. “We need to maintain the perspective , the European flame all the same me a membership process would be initiated,” he said.