EU leaders to back Ukraine as candidate at Brussels summit
A summit on Thursday will give the green light but Kyiv says “real integration” will start after the war. …
The French leader has suggested the community could include countries waiting to join the EU such as Ukraine and the Western Balkan states, or even those that have left, which would currently just include the UK. However, a number of EU diplomats have rejected the idea as half-baked. The UK left the European Union in 2020.