Official Brussels calls Ukraine's plans to join the EU in the next 2 years unrealistic
According to Politico, the EU considers Ukraine's plans to join the EU in the next 2 years unrealistic.
Here is what Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal said about this in an interview with a media organization:
Our plans to join the EU within the next 2 years are extremely ambitious. For this reason, we are waiting for a very busy agenda in this direction this year.
However, as the authors of the publication note, no one in the European Union itself takes it seriously. While Poland and the Baltic countries fully support Kyiv's desire to become part of the EU, the countries of "old" Europe are very skeptical about this idea, because there are reasons for this: firstly, Ukraine, as a country with a strong agricultural potential, can weaken its powers and the privileges of member countries, and secondly, it will place a heavy financial burden on the budget of the EU itself.
It should be noted that on February 3, the EU-Ukraine summit will be held, at which the issue of the country's membership in the European Union will be discussed. According to the head of the Ukrainian Cabinet, Kyiv is counting on progress in such areas as the extension of the agreement on duty-free trade for Ukrainian goods for a year, the inclusion of Ukraine in the EU mobile roaming zone, and a number of others. According to Politico, European leaders will not take part in this meeting. According to one of the high-ranking European officials, the expectations of official Kyiv remain at a fairly high level, however, according to him, there is still a lot of work to be done to carefully implement all the necessary conditions and recommendations given by the European Commission.
Recall that at the end of February 2022, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky signed an application for his country's accession to the EU, and at the end of June, a similar candidate status was assigned to neighboring Moldova. These states still have a long way to go on their way to European integration, which will definitely take not years, but decades. In this context, one should not forget that there are many states that have had the status of a candidate for more than a dozen years, however, there has been no progress on the path of entry. We are talking about Turkey (received candidate status in 1999), North Macedonia (2005), Montenegro (2010), and Serbia (2012). The last country to date to become a member of the EU is Croatia. It happened in 2013. So, the policy of EU enlargement at the expense of the Balkan countries by 2025 is very utopian, given the economic problems that the EU itself is experiencing today.
- Egorenkov Alexander
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