Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called on the European Union on Tuesday 1 March to grant his country candidate status and an accelerated accession procedure.
The day before, he had signed the official application for his country to become a candidate for EU membership, submitted by his ambassador to the EU to the French Presidency of the EU Council.
“I would like to hear you say that this Ukrainian choice of Europe is also yours”, the Ukrainian president pleaded in a remote speech...