The leaders of France, Germany, Italy, and Romania support the idea of granting Ukraine the status of EU candidate country, French President Emmanuel Macron has said.

"All four countries [France, Germany, Italy, and Romania] support the status of EU candidate country for Ukraine. We hope this decision would be unanimously approved by the European Council," he said during a press conference in Kyiv on Thursday following a meeting with President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky.