'Divisions over EU membership Ukraine '

- A group of five EU countries, including the Netherlands, has during the negotiations on the association agreement with Ukraine opposition to EU membership for the country. That says a French diplomat Pierre Vermont Friday in an interview with the newspaper.

Quot; There was always the same discussion. A group of countries, including the Baltic States, Poland, Britain and Sweden belong wild in the final text invariably incorporate a notion about the prospect of membership , thus Vermont. Quot; But a second group of countries consisting of France, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium and Austria, opposed it. That group refused to commit to any promise for the future. Quot;