
Brussels Faces Reality Check Over Ukraine’s EU Membership Bid
As Zelensky demands “full membership, EU leaders working to fast-track Ukraine’s accession are confronted with deep concerns over war, corruption, and the bloc’s own integration capacity.

As Zelensky demands “full membership, EU leaders working to fast-track Ukraine’s accession are confronted with deep concerns over war, corruption, and the bloc’s own integration capacity.

Kyiv’s move to bring migrant workers from the African continent into the country highlights the broader issues of national identity, internal cohesion, and the consequences of a future EU membership.

Full membership cannot be granted as a political gesture, lest the Union risk falling apart.

Four years into the war, we are facing a reality where the EU is attacking its own members, Slovakia and Hungary, while still caressing a non-EU member, Ukraine.

Friedrich Merz and other senior officials have dismissed a 2027 deadline as “impossible”.

According to a recent survey, Hungary speaks for most of the EU’s citizens when blocking the accession of Ukraine.

Taras Kachka will meet Hungarian FM Szijjártó on Thursday.

“As for NATO, this is another issue … Our position here is well known: we consider this unacceptable for ourselves,” the Russian president said.

Warsaw insists that Kyiv must “come to terms” with the 1943 massacre of around 100,000 Poles in Volhynia by Ukrainian nationalists.