Macron urges ‘European political community’ to go beyond EU – Times of India

Strasbourg: President of France Emmanuel Macron Said on Monday that it would take “decades” for a candidate like Ukraine To join the European Union, and suggested the creation of a broad political community of democratic states around the bloc.
“We know all too well that the process of allowing them to join will take years, in fact, decades,” he said of Ukraine, even if we gave him candidate status yesterday.
But, given the urgency of delivering Ukraine and other EU hopefuls moldova And Georgia A place in the heart of Europe, he called for the creation of a “European political community”.