Ukraine cannot demand to be admitted to the bloc by a certain date, Luxembourg’s Xavier Bettel has said
Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky should not “give ultimatums” to the EU over the country’s membership in the bloc, Luxembourgish Foreign Minister Xavier Bettel told reporters on Thursday.
Days earlier, the Ukrainian leader said he expects his country to be admitted to the EU by 2027, as part of a US-backed peace deal.
“I’m sorry, I told him…several times ‘don’t give ultimatums. It’s not in your interest’,” Bettel told journalists in Brussels.
“The fact is there are rules, they have the Copenhagen criteria and we need to fulfill them,” he said. The…
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