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EU membership not yet on the cards for Poland’s eastern neighbours

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Paweł Kononczuk 24.11.2017 15:06
  • EU membership not yet on the cards for Poland’s eastern neighbours
Leaders from EU countries and six former Soviet states are meeting in Brussels on Friday for an Eastern Partnership summit aimed at deepening ties.
A general view over the EU Eastern Partnership summit in Brussels, Belgium. Photo: EPA/JOHN THYSA general view over the EU Eastern Partnership summit in Brussels, Belgium. Photo: EPA/JOHN THYS

As Michał Owczarek reports, the Eastern Partnership was initiated by Poland and launched in 2009 to promote political and economic links between the EU and the six Eastern European partner countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine.

“Although the Ukrainians keep pushing at this kind of event… for some kind of wording about their eventual membership [of the EU], that’s a waste of time really… Ukraine might be a member if it fulfils all the criteria and not before,” said Andrew Wilson, a professor of Ukrainian Studies at University College London.

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