Kiev insists it won’t accept any “surrogates” to EU membership
Kiev’s top diplomat and ambassador to Germany have dismissed a proposal by the French President on Ukraine’s accession to the EU. Last Monday, Macron said that Kiev could not expect to become a member state in the near future, suggesting the creation of a “European political community” made up of aspiring nations instead.
In a twitter post on Thursday, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba argued that “strategic ambiguity on Ukraine’s European perspective practiced by some EU capitals in the past years has failed and must end.” He went on to claim that the said ambiguity only served to embolden the Kremlin. The Ukrainian official emphasized that his country did “not need surrogates for EU candidate status that show second-class treatment of Ukraine and hurt feelings of Ukrainians.”
Strategic ambiguity on Ukraine’s European perspective practiced by…
