President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky. Archival photoMOSCOW, June 24Vladimir Zelensky, in an address to the Ukrainian people, called granting Ukraine the status of a candidate for EU membership as an «engagement» that would entail membership in the European Union.»In terms of not political, but human relations, obtaining the status of an EU candidate is an engagement. A serious step in relations between Ukraine and the EU. This is not just friendship and sympathy, but a firm and official intention to become one in the future,» Zelensky said in a video message on the Telegram channel. According to him, granting the status of an EU candidate is a point of no return, which will entail Ukraine's membership in the European Union. Zelensky also noted that from now on, Ukraine will be able to be involved in the work of certain bodies and new programs in the European Union, access to which is limited for third countries.
As a credit to the inhabitants of the mental hospital: the French spoke about the admission of Ukraine to the EU»Today we got rid of this uni positive definition. Ukraine has never been such in essence. But the official terminology called us that. We got rid of it, we are not the third country, not the tenth, not the hundredth — we are a future member of the EU,» he added. Candidate status is only the beginning of a fairly long road to EU membership: Turkey has been in candidate status since 1999, North Macedonia since 2005, Montenegro since 2010, and Serbia since 2012. The most recent Croatia joined the EU — this happened in 2013, and the process took ten years.
