{"id":7834,"date":"2026-02-10T10:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T10:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/7834\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T10:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T10:52:09","slug":"5-steps-to-get-ukraine-into-the-eu-in-2027-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/7834\/","title":{"rendered":"5\u00a0steps\u00a0to\u00a0get Ukraine\u00a0into the EU\u00a0in 2027\u00a0\u00a0 \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

The EU\u2019s idea echoes Emmanuel Macron\u2019s multi-speed Union<\/a> blueprint, which he has outlined several times since he became French president in 2017. The latest version has been informally dubbed \u201creverse enlargement,\u201d according to an EU official and two European diplomats, because it effectively brings countries into the bloc at the beginning of the process of meeting membership criteria rather than at the end.<\/p>\n

EU officials say the idea is attractive because it would give Kyiv breathing space to finish reforms to its democratic institutions, judiciary and political system while lessening the likelihood it abandons hope of ever joining the bloc and turns its back on the West. However, obstacles lie ahead, not least Hungary\u2019s Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n, who opposes Ukraine\u2019s membership.<\/p>\n

Based on conversations with five diplomats representing different countries and three EU and two Ukrainian officials, who were granted anonymity to discuss the confidential negotiations they are familiar with, POLITICO has identified five steps.<\/p>\n

Step 1: Get Ukraine ready\u00a0<\/p>\n

The EU has been \u201cfrontloading<\/a>\u201d Ukraine\u2019s membership bid. That involves providing Kyiv with informal guidance in negotiating \u201cclusters\u201d \u2014 the legal steps on the path to membership.<\/p>\n

The bloc has already provided Ukraine with details on three of six negotiating clusters. At an informal meeting of European affairs ministers in Cyprus in March, the EU wants to give a visiting Ukrainian delegation details of more clusters so work can begin on those as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cDespite the most challenging circumstances, in the midst of ongoing Russian aggression, Ukraine is accelerating its reform efforts,\u201d Marilena Raouna, deputy Europe minister of Cyprus, which holds the Council of the EU presidency, told POLITICO. The March 3 meeting will target reaffirming that support, she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The EU\u2019s idea echoes Emmanuel Macron\u2019s multi-speed Union blueprint, which he has outlined several times since he became…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[104],"tags":[6213,1528,211,210,5195,4894,184,6549,4930,230,814,6550,190,3039,3040,6551,3309,3654,6552,6553,213,238,4581,2276,4628,241,76,1888,4038,1887,3399,546,4583],"class_list":["post-7834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brussels","tag-albania","tag-americas","tag-belgium","tag-brussels","tag-council-presidency","tag-cyprus","tag-donald-trump","tag-edi-rama","tag-elections","tag-emmanuel-macron","tag-energy","tag-enlargement","tag-germany","tag-hungary","tag-imports","tag-judiciary","tag-moldova","tag-negotiations","tag-peter-magyar","tag-referendum","tag-rights","tag-russia","tag-sanctions","tag-security","tag-space","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","tag-viktor-orban","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","tag-war","tag-war-in-ukraine"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}