Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis speaking at the EU leaders summit, where leaders discussed Ukraine’s EU membership and Russian energy imports. Credit: Office of the Greek Prime MinisterAlthough the European Union has expressed its support of Ukraine, it stopped short of offering the country fast-track membership at a summit of EU leaders in France on Thursday.
The bloc has been united in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with European countries expressing their great dismay at the war and hitting Russia with heavy sanctions.
In the wake of the war, Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian President, requested that the EU provide his country with expedited membership to support the country under invasion.
“I say this as honestly as possible…the people of Ukraine have already earned and have the right to gain membership in the European Union,” he implored EU leaders in a statement in late February.
EU does not yet allow Ukraine immediate membership in bloc
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