Ukraine and EU push to start membership talks in June

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1. Ukraine has good chances to be accepted before 2030

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2. Well, the acquis has apparentlyly proven itself too much for some candidates, but Ukraine seems pretty committed to pushing for membership, so they should be fine on that front after maybe two years or so.

   I’m more worried about their economy. The war has ravaged it considerably, so joining the SM+CU too early could actually have long-term negative effects, by flooding Ukraine with goods + services from less-impacted member states, when its local economy isn’t up to the challenge yet. The required economic recovery might take significantly longer than the pure legal changes, I fear, even with significant support from the Union and its member states.

3. Do you think Ukraine can reclaim its territory? I used to think it was possible, but now I feel confused.

4. Why do so many people fail to understand that Ukraine is taking bullets for the whole of Europe? Do some people really believe that Russia will stop its invasion?

5. With countries like Hungary around, Ukraine has no hope of joining until the war ends.

6. We Russians love peace. As long as Ukraine promises not to join NATO and the four regions gain independence, Russia can sit down and negotiate.

7. Countries that support Russia are all rogue states, like China, North Korea, and Iran.

8. Ah, yes. Bring in the most corrupt country in Europe to EU. I can already see those billions vanishing into thin air.

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10. EU should give Ukraine more weapon.

11. I’m all for supporting Ukraine but any enlargement of the EU without a reform of it is pointless, the veto has to go before any enlargement

12. Before EU accepts any new members, it should sort out veto bullshit. Which is not gonna happen soon

13. Corruption still going in Ukraine and yet people want to rush Ukr into EU, nice move 🙂

14. Ukraine still doesn’t meet most of the EU’s criteria’s, don’t let the war blind you as Ukraine still has massive corruption issues. What happens when a Russian puppet politician gets elected?

15. I hope Ukraine joins. They can be a great asset and they deserve protection.

16. The good thing about these talks is that they can be really really long talks. Turkey spent the last 20 or even more years with membership talks and they are not one inch closer, so the believers should not vision too much in these.