A French source announced, on Wednesday 2 March, that Ukraine’s application to become a candidate for EU membership (see EUROPE B12901A1) would be discussed at the informal meeting of EU ministers scheduled for Thursday 3 and Friday 4 March in Arles.
“There will be no conclusions or decisions”, explained a source, adding that it was a matter of seeing the responsiveness of the Member States on the subject in order to be able to “give an answer to the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr...