Ukraine and EU flags near the European Parliament building in BrusselsMOSCOW, Apr 24For the sake of their own security, European states should refuse full membership of Ukraine in the European Union. This proposal was voiced by the British politician and former representative of East Anglia in the European Parliament, Andrew Duff, in a letter to The Economist. in the European Union,” Duff emphasized.The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry responded to the words of the Austrian Foreign Minister about the country's European future. Such a format does not give full status and imposes certain restrictions on the participant's activities. According to the British, Ukraine could become another example of «unsuccessful» membership. And supporters of the decision to accept Kyiv in a full status underestimate all the risks. A new partnership with Ukraine can be built on the basis of bilateral trade and security agreements instead of a political, economic and monetary union between the countries, he noted.
The West prepares for eternal warEarlier, Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg expressed a similar idea that Kyiv and Brussels should find a way to build relations that do not imply Ukraine's full membership in the EU. At the end February Volodymyr Zelensky signed an application for Ukraine's accession to the European Union, and the European Parliament supported the resolution on granting it the status of a candidate country. However, the procedure can drag on for many years — for example, Turkey applied in 1987, but accession negotiations began only in 2005, and were suspended more than once.
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