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Ukraine and Georgia are not viewed as potential EU candidates at the moment, according to senior EC diplomat. Map by eurodialogue.org
Even though further enlargement of the EU is not ruled out, Ukraine and Georgia are not seen currently as potential EU membership candidates.
This has been stated by Fernando Valenzuela, head of the European Commission Delegation to Moscow, as cited by ITAR-TASS.
According to Valenzuela, the EU needs time to adjust to its last enlargement, i.e. the accession of 12 Eastern Europe states in 2004 and 2007, including Bulgaria and Romania.
He did remind, however, that there are countries which have been promised EU membership and those are the states in the Western Balkans. He also said Turkey was a different case as it is a country which was already negotiating.
Valenzuela has predicted that the introduction of visa-free travel between the EU and Russia still had a long way to go.
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