EU leaders will try to temper Kyiv’s expectations while avoiding negative public statements that could weaken morale
Photograph: Future Publishing/Ukrinform/Getty ImagesPhotograph: Future Publishing/Ukrinform/Getty ImagesEU leaders will seek to cool Ukraine’s expectations of a fast track to membership at a summit withThe president of the European Commission,, and the head of the European Council, Charles Michel, are due to meet Zelenskiy in Kyiv on Friday for wide-ranging talks on the war, further sanctions on Russia and integrating Ukraine into the EU’s internal market.
But few member states expect Ukraine to join any time soon. The French president, Emmanuel Macron, said last May it would probably take. Some diplomatic sources have expressed scepticism that Ukraine, which would become the poorest EU member state and the largest recipient of European funds, will ever attain membership.
“There is no fast track,” said one senior EU diplomat, adding it was “too early to tell” whether Ukraine would join the EU. “The path for any candidate country is a long one. Ukraine is no exception here.”
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