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EU leaders won't make exceptions for Ukraine membership

At a top-level summit in Versailles, EU leaders have agreed to give Ukraine another half a billion euros in military aid. But they rejected the idea of fast-tracking Kyiv's EU membership bid.

    

The two-day summit ended with a message of solidarity for Ukraine, but with no membership pledge

The heads of all 27 EU states pledged to strengthen their ties with Kyiv and "support Ukraine in pursuing its European path" following a two-day summit in Versailles, France.

In a joint statement, the EU leaders also said that "Ukraine belongs to the European family."

However, they rejected the plea by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to quickly accept Ukraine into the EU as the war with Russia continues. The accession process normally takes years or even decades, with the candidate nation required to meet a number of EU-set criteria.

The host of the summit, French President Emmanuel Macron, said the bloc would not make exceptions for Ukraine.

"Could we have exceptional measures for a country that is at war without respecting the criteria [for joining the EU]? The answer is no," he said after the summit finished on Friday.

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