EU backs Ukraine’s membership bid to ‘live the European dream’

EU backs Ukraine’s membership bid to ‘live the European dream’

EU backs Ukraine’s membership bid to ‘live the European dream’

EU backs Ukraine’s membership bid to ‘live the European dream’ (credits:google)

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  • Ukraine EU candidacy signals major shift in European geopolitics.
  • “Europe can create a new history of freedom,” Zelenskiy says.
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BRUSSELS/KYIV – The European Union approved Ukraine and Moldova as applicants for membership on Friday, pushing deep into the former Soviet Union for what would be a momentous geopolitical change as a result of Russia’s invasion.

“Ukrainians are willing to die for the European viewpoint,” said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, who was dressed in Ukrainian colours: a yellow jacket over a blue top, at a press conference. “We want them to share the European dream with us.”

Despite the fact that this is merely the beginning of a long process, it puts Kyiv on track to achieve a goal that seemed unattainable only a few months ago.

In February, four days after Russian forces rushed across the border, Ukraine sought to join the EU. Moldova and Georgia — smaller ex-Soviet states also dealing with separatist regions held by Russia — followed four days later.

“It’s the first step on the road to EU membership, and it will undoubtedly bring our victory closer,” President Volodymyr Zelensky tweeted. “Europe can construct a new history of freedom, and eventually remove the grey zone in Eastern Europe between the EU and Russia, precisely because of the bravery of the Ukrainians.”
One of President Vladimir Putin’s key goals in initiating an invasion that has murdered thousands of people, damaged cities, and forced millions of people to flee was to stop the West from expanding eastward through the NATO military alliance.

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The war’s opposite effect has been highlighted by Friday’s announcement: encouraging Finland and Sweden to join NATO, and now the EU to start on its most ambitious expansion since embracing Eastern European members after the Cold War.

Putin downplayed the EU problem on Friday, saying: “We have no objections to it. It isn’t a military confederation. Any country has the right to join an economic union.”

At a conference next week, EU leaders are anticipated to support the decision on membership candidacy. On Thursday, the leaders of the three largest European countries — Germany, France, and Italy — paid a visit to Kyiv, together with Romania’s president.

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