Barroso said the membership had not been offered because the EU member-states were not ready "to integrate at this stage a country like Ukraine."
He emphasized that Ukraine was not ready to join the EU either.
"But we have always said the door is not closed to accession...so the possibility exists in the future,” Barroso said.
New authorities in Kiev signed last week political chapters of an association agreement with the European Union, committing both sides to closer ties.
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- Barroso : l'UE n'est pas prête pour proposer une perspective d’adhésion à l'Ukraine..
« Pourquoi l'Union Européenne n’a pas proposé l’adhésion à l’Ukraine ? Parce que les Etats membres ne sont pas prêts à accueillir un nouveau membre. Ces derniers considèrent non seulement que l'Ukraine n'est pas prête à franchir cette étape, mais l'UE n'est pas en mesure d’accepter un pays comme l’Ukraine au sein de l’union. Mais nous disons toujours, que la porte n'est jamais fermée à l'entrée, cette possibilité existe à long terme », a déclaré le président de la Commission européenne José Manuel Barroso en répondant à la question d'un journaliste à Bruxelles.
Barroso a noté que pour proposer l'adhésion de l'Ukraine à l'Union européenne, « un accord des pays membres est nécessaire, mais nous en sommes encore loin. »
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EU-Ukraine: Unprecedented visit to follow-up on Association Agreement signature
José Manuel Barroso, Πρόεδρος της Ευρωπαϊκής Επιτροπής: "Η συμφωνία σύνδεσης με την Ουκρανία είναι Ιστορική"
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Barroso: EU not ready to launch procedure of Ukraine’s accession to EU...
ReplyDeleteEU countries are not ready to launch the procedure of Ukraine’s accession to the EU, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said Thursday.
EU members believe that not only Ukraine is unready for membership but the EU is unready to integrate the country into its ranks at the current stage, too, and that is why an Association Agreement was offered to the Ukrainian authorities, Barroso said in the course of an expert discussion in Brussels.
He indicated however that the door for membership was not closed and that Ukraine might use the opportunity in the future. However, to do this Ukraine would need reforms, a struggle with corruption and a bigger degree of openness of the authorities to society.
Barroso indicated that the start of talks on EU expansion through absorption of a new country required unanimity of all the EU member-states, and they never had unanimity as regards Ukraine.
http://en.itar-tass.com/world/725646
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