The community executive recommends that twenty-seven to grant kyiv the status of candidate for entry into the European space. A highly symbolic decision that will not change anything immediately for this country at war.
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By recommending to the twenty-seven on Friday, June 17, to offer Ukraine a “European perspective” and to grant her the status of candidate for the Union, it is first of all a political message that the Commission sent to kyiv. Indeed, even if the European Heads of State and Government, who must meet in Brussels on June 23 and 24 to discuss it, follow this opinion, this decision, certainly highly symbolic, will have no immediate consequences for this country at war.
“Ukrainians are ready to die to defend their European aspirations. We want them to live with us the European dream,” said Ursula von der Leyen on Friday. For this, they will probably have to wait for several years. Because the status of candidate that the community executive proposes to award to kyiv does not presume the continuation. It is accompanied by a list of reforms that Ukraine must carry out, before negotiations for the accession of the country to the European Union (EU) could begin. “And this status as a candidate himself is reversible,” says a senior official. If it is it to kyiv, the European Council can then decide to withdraw it.
“Ukraine has already adopted around 70 % of European rules, standards and standards,” said Ursula von der Leyen, but much remains to be done in areas like “the rule of law, oligarchs, the fight against corruption and fundamental rights “. The continuation, she hammered, “will depend entirely on Ukraine” and the way she “will implement important reforms”-knowing, as said by the former Minister of Angela Merkel, which Many of them can be done even in wartime. “The government works, the parliament works,” she said. The Commission will make a first assessment of the path traveled by the end of the year.
far from the EU standards
In reality, Ukraine is today very far from community standards, in social, economic and environmental matters, and Brussels could not go further. Especially since several member states – at the forefront of which France and Germany – do not hide their reluctance from the idea of a new enlargement. While Europe at twenty-seven already has trouble functioning, they doubt that it be able to assimilate, without reform of the treaties, a country as large as Ukraine (44 million inhabitants), which would lean even more to the east of the continent the center of community construction and would permanently change the balance of powers within the EU.
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