The Presidents of the European Council, Charles Michel, and of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, praised Ukraine’s ongoing efforts to move closer to the European Union on Tuesday 12 October in Kiev, without going so far as to explicitly advocate Ukrainian membership of the EU, notably because of the extreme sensitivity regarding it’s Russian neighbour on this issue.
“We belong to the same European family”, said Mr Michel, for whom the joint statement adopted at the...