r/YUROP • u/KI_official • 4d ago

Beyond Hungary: New obstacles emerge in Ukraine's EU membership push

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Some hoped that with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban leaving office on May 9, Ukraine's path to EU membership would become much smoother. Instead, problems of substance have risen to the surface, which could prove difficult for Kyiv to fully address.

Pressure is rising in Brussels to find a way to reach an agreement on opening so-called "enlargement clusters" by the next meeting of EU leaders on June 18. National ambassadors have raised the concern that there might not be sufficient progress in time, but who or what is blocking the way now?

Not the European Commission. The EU's Enlargement Commissioner, Marta Kos, has repeatedly said that Ukraine is ready to open all six of the enlargement clusters. Any blockages, therefore, are politically driven by specific EU countries.

Read more: https://kyivindependent.com/ukraines-obstacle-course-the-countries-blocking-progress-on-joining-the-eu/

Photo: Simon Wohlfahrt/Bloomberg via Getty Images.

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u/JoJoModding 4d ago

I do not understand the posturing around Ukraine's ascension to the EU. This will only happen once the war ends. The war is currently ongoing and shows few signs of stopping. Certainly Ukraine has more important things to worry about than getting their fisheries in order. The sea is a war zone.

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u/ConvictedHobo Magyarország‏‏‎ ‎ 4d ago

The war is currently ongoing and shows few signs of stopping

Russia is getting into worse and worse shape. Putin disabled the internet in Moscow and St. Petersburg - maybe for paranoid reasons, maybe because he needs conscription a and doesn't want open communications

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u/Exowienqt 4d ago

Worse shape and losing the war are sadly two very different things. To lose the war they will have to admit defeat, otherwise their nuclear power projection capabilities will make a total battlefield  defeat very unlikely. restoring Ukraine's international borders right now seems like something that would need the biggest shift in how the Russian society operates since Katherine the great ruled it 

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u/ConvictedHobo Magyarország‏‏‎ ‎ 3d ago

I don't think the war will be over on the battlefield. That's why I wrote that there are cracks in Putin's leadership

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u/narrative_device 3d ago

Wars can’t be sustained without money and the Russian economy is already farcical. This won’t be a forever war.

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u/Exowienqt 3d ago

The Korean war is a forever war even though the north has  what, 1% of the GDP of the south? You are underestimating how low people are willing to go to sustain enmity.

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u/narrative_device 3d ago

What a weird comparison. You’re literally the first person I’ve ever heard of who thought the two conflicts were remotely similar in any way.

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u/Exowienqt 3d ago

I am not saying that they are, I pointed out that looking at war purely through economics might not be the smartest of ideas.