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Macron says Ukraine joining EU still 'far off'

Lamya Abdulla
15 December 2023, MVT 21:27
French President Emmanuel Macron gives a press conference at the end of an European Union summit at the European headquarters in Brussels on December 15, 2023. The president of the European Council confirmed on December 15, 2023 that European leaders had failed to agree to a budget plan including aid for Ukraine after an objection from one member, understood to be Hungary. (Photo by Miguel MEDINA / AFP)
Lamya Abdulla
15 December 2023, MVT 21:27

France President Emmanuel Macron warned Friday that Ukraine's eventual membership of the European union was still far off, despite a breakthrough at the EU summit in Brussels.

Responding to a question about the effect on France's farmers of welcoming Ukraine's large agricultural sector into the EU, Macron said there was still time to prepare.

"We are very far from effective enlargement to Ukraine and, in any case, enlargement, whatever it may be, will require an in-depth reform of our rules and therefore this will only be possible with an massive funding increase," he said.

© Agence France-Presse

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