The Minister of Foreign Affairs today criticized “some hesitations” of the previous government on Ukraine’s accession to the European Union (EU) and considered that with the Montenegro executive there are no more ambiguities.
“Prime Minister Luís Montenegro gave a clear signal that he was in favor of EU enlargement. This is something that I think needed to be clarified, because Portugal had some hesitations, especially when it was being given candidate status last year,” said Paulo Rangel, at the end of a ministerial meeting of the Atlantic Alliance in Brussels.
The minister acknowledged that the government of Socialist António Costa was “totally on Ukraine’s side”, but on the issue of enlargement “there was at least some hesitation there, which always creates a minimum margin of ambiguity”.
“There are no ambiguities now,” he added.