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Ukraine and the EU: the brake of war and the wind of history

2022-06-23T17:42:31.529Z


ANALYSIS - By giving a prospect of membership to this country capable of shifting the EU's center of gravity to the east, Europe is obliging itself to launch the project of its own renovation without further delay.


A political hydra with a body of technocratic monolith, the European Union is clearly not equipped to resist the storms of history.

Russia, with its senseless war, has just offered it an irresistible new candidate, Ukraine.

It is associated with Moldova to defy Moscow a little more and maintain the illusion that the din of arms alone does not explain the decision of the Twenty-Seven.

However, what other argument can justify such a fateful choice made without a real preliminary substantive debate?

In the world before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the war was obviously a barrier to entry into this club of haves with picrocholine quarrels that is the EU.

At a minimum, you were asked to control your borders, even if they were the subject of a “frozen” conflict like in Cyprus.

We took the time to assess your state of preparation (two years on average) and we set criteria for you to meet before obtaining candidate status, as well as afterwards.

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Source: lefigaro

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