MOSCOW (Sputnik) — At a press conference in The Hague on Thursday, Juncker said:
"Ukraine will certainly not become a member of the European Union in the next 20 to 25 years, as well as of NATO."
Juncker's remarks came ahead of April's advisory referendum in the Netherlands on Ukraine's association agreement with the European Union.
The free trade agreement is expected to provide Ukraine with access to the EU internal market. The referendum on the issue has been initiated in the Netherlands by EU skeptics.
In March, 2014, the Ukraine–EU Association Agreement was ratified. The deal establishes a political and economic association between the parties, which seek to cooperate on and converge their economic policies, legislation, and regulations across a broad range of areas, including a visa-free regime, the exchange of information by security services, the modernization of Ukraine's infrastructure, and access to the European Investment Bank.
