European Union makes Ukraine a candidate for membership

European Union on Thursday on the road to EU accession With featureless speed and unity that have agreed to guide and act, we will further separate the perplexed nations from Russia's influence and connect them closer to the West.

At the summit meeting in Brussels,EU leaders from 27 countriesunanimously approve the status of a candidate for Ukraine. I collected it. This initiates a membership process that can take years or even decades.

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky tweeted his gratitude and declared that "Ukraine's future is in the EU."

"It's a victory. I've been waiting for 120 days and 30 years," he mentioned on Instagram about the duration of the war and decades. Because Ukraine became independent with the collapse of the Soviet Union. "And now we defeat the enemy."

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen declared this day "a good day for Europe".

The EU has also given the status of a candidate to a small country in Moldova, another former Soviet republic that borders Ukraine.

Ukraine applied for membership less than a week after Moscow invaded on February 24Thursday's decision was with the EU It was unusually quick for its slow approach to expansion. However, the war and the request for prompt consideration of Ukraine have brought urgency to the cause of the country.

To gain EU accession, countries must meet detailed economic and political conditions, such as the rule of law and commitment to other democratic principles. Ukraine needs to curb established government corruption and adopt other reforms.

The European Parliament approved the Ukrainian bid hours before the summit began and passed a resolution calling on the EU government to "act without delay" and "fulfill its historical responsibilities."

"It strengthens Ukraine and strengthens Europe. It is a decision for freedom and democracy and puts us on the right side of history," European Parliamentary Speaker Roberta Mezzola concludes. I said before the decision.

EU countries have adopted unprecedented economic sanctions on the Kremlin and united to support Ukraine in the fight against the Russian invasion of gold and weapons.

The status of EU candidates does not give you automatic rights to join the block and does not provide an immediate security guarantee.

However, once a country becomes a member, it is subject to the provisions of the EU Treaty, and if a member state is the victim of an armed aggression, other EU countries are obliged to support that country by all means. ..

However, the main advantage of EU member states is economic. This is due to access to a market of 450 million consumers who are free to move labor, goods, services and capital.

Ukraine has long been eager to joinNATO,, but the military alliance has partly government corruption, national defense. Facilities and their disputed borders.

Before the war, Russian President Vladimir Putin demanded that Ukraine never be allowed to participate in NATO and blamed the eastern spread to the Russian side. But earlier this month he said he wasn't bothered by Ukraine's determination to approach the EU, which is not a military alliance and therefore "we do not dispute."

EU leaders also agreed on Thursday to recognize the "European perspective" of yet another former Soviet Republic, Georgia. The European Council Chairman Charles Michel said the EU is ready to approve the status of the candidate if "excellent priorities" are taken up.

Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Moravietski, a country that has long supported Ukraine's European ambitions, said on his Twitter account: Because freedom continues.

The membership process can be long and winding.

For example, Turkey had to apply for membership in 1987, acquire candidate status in 1999, and wait until 2005 to begin negotiations for actual entry. did. Since then, only one of the more than 30 "chapter" of negotiations has been completed, and the entire process has been halted as a result of various conflicts between the EU and Turkey.

Similarly, some Balkan countries have long unsuccessfully sought accession to the EU.

European officials say Ukraine has already adopted about 70% of EU regulations and standards, but also points out the need for national corruption and serious political and economic reforms. ..

"Especially the fight against corruption and the establishment of an effective rule of law require considerable effort," said Belgian Prime Minister Alexander de Crew. "But I am convinced that it is exactly the reconstruction of Ukraine (after the war) that offers the opportunity to take an important step."

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