Some EU nations want to postpone membership for Ukraine – reports

[BeatMan]

Germany, the Netherlands and other Western European nations want the European Commission to investigate Ukraine’s readiness for EU membership before fast-tracking its application to the bloc, Bloomberg reported on Monday, citing unnamed diplomats. Ukraine’s Eastern European neighbors have pushed for a speedy accession.

These countries, of which only Germany and the Netherlands are named, “want to focus on delivering practical support to Ukraine and ending the war rather than embarking on a process that could take at least a decade,” Bloomberg reported.

Ukraine applied for EU membership last week, with President Volodymyr Zelensky asking for “immediate accession via a new special procedure.” His demand was backed up by the leaders of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia, who in an open letter asked “the EU institutions to conduct steps to immediately grant Ukraine a EU candidate country status and open the process of negotiations.”

https://www.rt.com/news/551439-ukraine-eu-membership-opposition/

 

[PaxNurgle]

It would seem to me that, if Russia's big beef with Ukraine is having a potential foe allied against them right up on their border, that a good negotiation for ending the bloodbath is allowing Ukraine to sign a treaty of neutrality- that is, they cannot be a member of the EU or NATO, but will remain an independent and soverign state.

 

[pecksniff]

I don't think there's any precedent for admitting a nation to the EU while it is in a state of war.