Summit of EU heads of state and government today and tomorrow in Versailles under the French presidency.
The leaders of the European Union should send to Ukraine, but also to Georgia and Moldova, "a political signal about their belonging to the European family", even without being able to launch into an accelerated accession procedure.
According to Elysée sources, after the EU launched the procedure for examining membership applications on Monday, France believes that the three candidates must "invent new ways of getting closer to the EU".
In particular, "a strengthening of cooperation in the economic, education and research sectors, as well as in political cooperation".
The heads of state of the three candidate countries could - according to rumors circulating in Versailles - "be associated with the meetings of the European Council on a more regular basis".
But, according to the Elysée, "it will not be an adhesion to end the war".
According to various European sources in Versailles, France's proposal to adopt a new European recovery plan on the model of the 800 billion Recovery Plan does not garner unanimous support.
In particular, Germany appears rather hostile to this proposal which would take the form - according to Elysée sources - of a common loan to amortize the consequences of the war in Ukraine.
"The topic is not on the agenda", cut short the German Finance Minister, Christian Lindner, and like him several Northern European countries are hostile to a new mutualization of debt.
"I had a long meeting with Macron. Italy and France are aligned with the EU".
Prime Minister Mario Draghi said this before the summit
