EU and Ukrainian flags on the European Parliament building in Brussels, Belgium. File photoBRUSSELS, Jun 21Accession of Ukraine to the European Union will take at least 15 years, says Michel Modrikamen, former head of the Belgian opposition People's Party.
"Turkey has been an official candidate since 1999 when the Helsinki conference was held, but their application to join was submitted in 1987, 35 years ago… So becoming an official candidate means nothing; EU member states can also veto accession at any point in the process. This will take at least 15 years. So all that the European leaders did during their visit to Kyiv was to sell Zelensky and the Ukrainians a blue dream", he told RIA Novosti.
The expert noted that the visit of a number of European leaders to Kyiv on June 16 does not mean that Ukraine will be in the European Union in the future. French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, and Romanian President Klaus Iohannis arrived in the capital of Ukraine last Thursday. left-wing coalition NUPES, and Marine Le Pen, who leads the far-right National Rally party, has expressed strong concerns about Ukraine, and Draghi leads a coalition that includes many parties opposed to Ukraine's accession to the EU.
Ukraine is being driven to die for EU candidate status»So the PR operation of Macron, Scholz, Draghi and Klaus Iohannis in Kyiv is just what it is, communication … Nothing has been done yet. The road to membership will be very long,» he said. Last Friday, the European Commission recommended granting Ukraine and Moldova the status of Candy countries dates subject to the fulfillment of a number of preconditions for the commencement of accession negotiations. The EC has not yet recommended granting such a status to Georgia. The official decision on granting or refusing the status of candidates to Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia will be made by the heads of state and government of the EU at the summit in Brussels on June 23-24, taking into account the recommendation of the European Commission.
Hysterical day. The European Union offered Ukraine to surrender