#Germany has proposed a detailed and innovative roadmap to expand the #EU that would give candidate countries such as #Ukraine early benefits including observer status at leaders’ summits in #Brussels before full membership. The proposals by the foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, amount to an offer of integrating candidate countries into sections of the EU long before technical negotiations for membership, which can drag on for years, are completed. #Ukraine and #Moldova were added last summer to the queue of official candidates including #Georgia. | EU NEIGHBOURS east | EU Neighbours South | EU Neighborhood & Enlargement | European Research Executive Agency (REA) | Ukraine.ua | European Union Monitoring Mission in Georgia (EUMM) | Europe-Georgia Institute | Europe-Georgia Institute | European Business Association Georgia | European Business Association Georgia | The European-Ukrainian Hub | European Youth of Ukraine | International European University, Ukraine | European Youth Parliament - Ukraine | European Ukraine | UKRAINE EUROPEAN EDUCATIONS | EIU European Initiatives for Ukraine | European Movement for Ukraine Team |