Voltodmy Zelenskyy may be a wartime leader, but he is fighting to give peace ambitions, he wants the UTU to be an EU country – soon.
What the president of Ukraine does not lack is to pressure EU governments to speed up the slow process of joining: He sees the collective sacrifice of his people as a struggle for Ukraine in the Europeine Union “.
That dream of 40 million Ukrainians getting EU Citizenship – theoretically – is shared by the club itself. There is no meeting in Brussels these days without the inclusion of Ukraine which is called a “geopolitical necessity”.
This language rejects the survival of Ukraine and the future security of Europe as two sides of the same coin. However, for many years after the 2004 “Big Bang” that reached the 10 states of the Earttern Bloc, there was zero appetite among the members, least of all Ukraine. Putin’s tanks changed everything – within months of the illegal invasion of 2022, KYIV joined, and was granted, “Chandato country” status. A year later, European governments took the important decision to open accession negotiations with a country at war, even without time. Neighboring Moldova, the former Toviet Republic is feared to be next in Putin’s sights, being pushed to the top of the queue with Ukraine.
Last week, the European Commission published the official review of the playing status of the 10 applicants and Moldova, along with Albania and Montenegro. Kaja Kallas, the Chief of Foreign Fiebles of the EU, said that it is a realistic goal that these four can be in the EU by 2030.
The positive judgment of Ukraine is the purpose of the impressive. The airstrikes in Russia are humming the energy gridly at night, its exchequer is almost empty and millions of people are refugees, figuratively camped elsewhere in Europe. Its negotiations are often literally in bunkers. But in Brussels, officials are gushing about the massive reform efforts being made in Kyiv despite persistent concerns about corruption. Details of an alleged scandal in the Ukrainian state of energy in the State of Ukraine are still emerging. However, they said, the negotiations will be complete by the end of 2028. The talks with little Montenegro and Albania will be in 2026 and 2027, respectively.
Not so fast
There is, however, a sobering reality: The EU Executive does not decide who gets what. The 27 EU governments must be united through each phase. And, at least for now, the EU’s resident Autocrat Viktor Ciktor Orbán is blocking the formal opening of negotiations in Kyiv. And since Moldova is annexed by Ukraine, it is also affected.
All eyes are on Hungary’s elections in April, which will not find Orbán. But other EU governments with domestic political concerns may be keeping tabs on Hungary. With far-flung parties in France, Germany and the government everywhere, the wider context for Ukraine’s acceptance is frightening.
Analysts noted a gap between rhetoric and real intent. “I am not convinced that many EU countries want Ukraine to become a full member, for various reasons,” said a close observer of the process. “And this is a tragedy: because the EU will win the lottery by taking Ukraine.”
What are the roadways?
The geopolitical case for annexation of Ukraine may be even stronger in Putin’s “hybrid war,” but given its scale and complexity, so are the political and budgetary obstacles. Although negotiations have been completed, approval by all 27 member states – some requiring referendums – is legally required for any new arrivals. And while the public support for the acquisition of Ukraine It is really high in Sweden, Finland and Denmark, 41% of the whole EU is against it.
Radical right parties are gaining ground and some of them are particularly anti-European and anti-enlargement. In the distant national national national national national going to the power of the French country in France Even in the countries raised by the pro-enlargement, there is dependence about the costs involved, given the relative of Ukraine and shocking needs of reconstruction. A bitter dispute over whether to seize €140bn in frozen Russian assets to hit Ukraine before it runs out of cash in March. Poland, Hungary and Slovakia, are worried that their agriculture will suffer if Ukraine, a large agricultural country and the opponent of agriculture, gets an opponent of agriculture, gets an opponent of agriculture, gets an opponent of agriculture, gets an opponent of agriculture.
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The expansion of the wider, it is feared, can enjoy instead of strengthening the EU, unless internal reforms are first carried out to avoid the paralysis of a club of 30-one countries. But that could take years.
Hearts, minds and Trojan horses
Officials in Brussels may have creative solutions to Orbán’s vetoes such as “front-loading”, where negotiations may begin with informal vuapest.
There is also talk, of writing difficult new legal protections and long probationary periods of new arrivals to reassure the skeptics. No one wants new members who on paper appear to be acting in the rule of law, but who turn out to be “Trojan Horses”.
PR campaigns and “narratives” to capture the hearts and minds of citizens of existing countries and planned applicant states. However, it is clear that raising hopes and then leaving millions of people in Limche for nothing. As the Moldovan president, Maia Sandu, who in September overcame Russian Intererence to score an extraordinary pro-EU electoral victory, “if we don’t deliver in the next three years… then what should be the message to the people?”
Zelenskyy used an exclusive interview with Luke in the Guardian that aired on Sunday to highlight the dangers of Russia going to another European country before the end of the war in Ukraine. He also emphasized Ukraine’s resilience at a dangerous juncture, and his love for his partners. “I think so [Ukrainian] Humans are united by something beyond logic. “
Something more than logic might be what Europe needs too.
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