"This is not second-class membership": German ambassador asserts Merz's idea of special status for Ukraine in EU has advantages

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German Ambassador to Ukraine Haiko Thoms asserts that the special status for Ukraine proposed by Chancellor Friedrich Merz ahead of its EU accession is the best idea among those with a realistic chance of being agreed by member states and offers Ukraine advantages rather than the risks others have seen in the proposal.

Source: Haiko Thoms in an interview with European Pravda

Details: The German ambassador argues that criticism of Chancellor Merz's letter proposing a special status for Ukraine ahead of full EU accession is at times linked to a misreading of the intentions behind it.

"Here I want to state very clearly: the proposal Germany has made to Ukraine is the most concrete proposal regarding an integration format that has ever been on the table in the EU. And it is probably the best proposal that will be discussed in the near future with regard to Ukraine," Thoms stressed.