Politicians who spoke with Newsweek fear the proposal would leave Ukraine stuck in limbo as a way to protect EU-Russia business interests.
Macron himself acknowledged that years of delay to Ukraine's membership bid might demoralize Kyiv."We take the risk that they will despair, that they will give up," the president said.
"It's clear that this must and won't dissuade us from the accession processes on which we are already working for so long," Scholz warned, applauding the"courage" of the Western Balkan applicants. But the union—and particularly nations such as Germany and Hungary which have deep commercial ties to Russia—has been criticized for not responding faster with tougher measures.
"It is important that this step doesn't cancel the European Union aspirations of Ukrainians. This decision cannot happen in exchange for EU membership. These must be parallel processes," she said. Germany and France were members of the failed Normandy Format, which sought a peaceful resolution to the conflict between Kyiv and Russian-backed separatists in the eastern Donbas region in 2014.
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