A “historic day”, a “crucial step on your path towards the EU”... There was no shortage of superlatives for EU leaders to describe their decision to grant EU candidate country status to Ukraine and Moldova and to recognise Georgia’s European perspective, on Thursday 23 June.
The European Council thus followed the recommendations of the European Commission, which were also supported by the European Parliament (see other news).
“It is a strong message, a message of unity, of...