EU urged to accept Ukraine as member

Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko has urged the EU to accept Ukraine as a member and set out a four-point plan to achieve this goal.

In an interview with the Financial Times over the weekend, Mr Yushchenko said, "Of course, Ukraine is waiting for real concrete steps in response to these democratic and political processes that are occurring in Ukraine. We are awaiting analogous steps from the European Union".

According to the paper, he lay down a four-point plan to ac...