Effort to win over doubters in Berlin, Paris and other capitals and start accession process
Olha Stefanishyna, Ukraine’s deputy prime minister with responsibility for European integration, said either of these outcomes would be extremely disappointing.
“There have been three wars since 2008, so we call on leaders to refrain from more political promises, and instead to start the legal decisions which would pave the way for a European track for Ukraine and ensure we are members of the European family,” she said.said Ukraine should be granted candidate status “right now, in the condition of war, within the framework of a special shortened procedure for obtaining EU membership”.
Candidate status is just the first step in a long process of obtaining full membership, but even that decision is under question, with France, Germany the Netherlands and the Nordic nations among sceptics. Macron has said it could take 20 years for Ukraine to become an EU member. One European diplomat said: “It’s clear already that EU decision-making is not working well, and we see Hungary holding the other 26 members hostage. We need to reform our internal processes first before we start talking about other members.”
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