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Macron’s “European political community”: preliminary stage or consolation plaster?

France’s president sparked a debate with his Europe Day speech: Does the EU need a precursor to membership? There is sympathy for it in the community, but the aspirants react suspiciously.

In Kiev, Emmanuel Macron’s proposal did not go down well. “If we don’t get candidate status, it means that Europe wants to rip us off,” said Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba in his usual undiplomatic manner. Ukraine will not be satisfied with an associated partnership, he said.

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