For Kyiv, "there are no alternatives for the fast, merit-based, but full membership in the European Union," Taras Kachka, Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration, said in an exclusive interview with Euronews.
Earlier this month, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz pitched the idea that Ukraine could become an "associate member" of the EU before becoming a fully-fledged member state.
Kachka rejected the idea, calling it "unacceptable if it is an alternative to full membership."
He stated that Ukraine needs a "fast, comprehensive, normal accession process that will end with the signing of a treaty of accession under Article 49 of the Treaty of the European Union."
Everything else, he said, "doesn't matter."
