Europeans prefer Russia as EU member over Turkey

European citizens would rather see Ukraine and Russia enter the EU than Turkey, a French poll suggests - but less than half of Ukrainians themselves back EU membership.

A survey conducted by French polling firm TNS Sofres for the Ukrainian Yalta European Strategy network, a lobby group promoting Kiev's accession to the EU, was published on Wednesday (30 November).

Around 1,000 people in each of the EU's six largest countries - Germany, France, Italy, Poland, Spain and the UK - we...