The EU is too ruthless, Ukraine needs to complete 2,700 pieces of legislation to join the EU, who is fooling this?A few days ago, the EU held a summit of leaders, mainly discussing two things, that is, to start negotiations on the process of Ukraine's accession to the European Union, and to continue to provide military aid to Ukraine. During the meeting, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who strongly opposes Ukraine's accession, was invited by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to the sidelines for coffee. As a result, in Orban's absence, the EU passed a resolution on Ukraine's accession negotiations, but did not pass a bill to continue to provide military aid to Ukraine.
In fact, it is no wonder that Orban agreed to be absent from the vote because Scholz told him that it was impossible for Ukraine to join the European Union. Sure enough, the EU is far open to Ukraine, but there is an almost insurmountable chasm in between. According to Reference News, after the EU opened negotiations on Ukraine's accession, it means that the country has taken a big step towards its goal of becoming a member of the European Union, but for the candidate countries, this is not the time to declare victory, because they still have a long way to go.
In its report, the Spanish newspaper El País pointed out that candidate countries need to meet a series of political, economic and "EU democratic values" and other aspects of the membership requirements. Therefore, being on the list of EU candidates is just a milestone for Ukraine, but it does not guarantee that the country will one day join the EU. Therefore, Turkey, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and many other countries, some of which are still roaming the gates of the EU after decades of being candidates.
Almost every one of these countries is far more qualified to join the EU than Ukraine. Obviously, before the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, the only impression of Ukraine in the minds of the EU was "the poorest country in Europe", and no one would have thought of allowing this poor country to join the EU. And the outbreak of the conflict has changed the perception of some people in the EU about Ukraine.
Therefore, although Ukraine is not even qualified to be a candidate country, the EU labels it a candidate country to encourage them to continue to shed blood and sacrifice for the West's anti-Russian strategy. Of course, as El País points out, a candidate does not mean that it is a member of the European Union. Because the old political fritters of the EU have already set a series of almost impossible task lists for Ukraine.
Ukraine was originally the "poorest country in Europe", and now it has suffered from the devastation of the war, making it even more difficult for this country to be accepted by the old political fritters in Europe. According to Interface Express, Ukrainian Prime Minister Shmygal said a few days ago that Ukraine has begun negotiations on joining the European Union, which is an extremely difficult job, because Ukraine needs to complete 2,739 pieces of legislation to achieve compliance with EU law.
Ukraine wants to complete thousands of pieces of legislation in a few years, and even if the Verkhovna Rada wants to release water, it will be difficult for the EU to accept it if it does not produce substantial results. Therefore, this should only be one of the EU's means to fool Ukraine, after all, as long as one of the more than 2,700 pieces of legislation does not meet the standard, Ukraine can only continue to wander outside the EU gates.
Turkey's accession to the European Union has experienced similar bumps. Turkey first applied to the EU in 1987 and was told that it would have to meet thousands of legislative targets in 35 different areas before the EU would consider admitting them. But it has been calculated that it will take 986 years for Turkey to complete these cumbersome legislative standards. That is, if Ukraine also experiences the same treatment as Turkey, then it will also take a thousand years to join the EU.
And this is only the most basic condition for the EU to allow Ukraine to join the EU, 10,000 steps back, even if Ukraine completes all the legislation, it still needs the consent of all members in the accession vote to become a full member. You must know that in the EU, in addition to Hungary, Austria and many other member states are also opposed to Ukraine's accession. This means, in effect, that no matter what efforts Ukraine makes, it is almost impossible to enter the European Union.
The reason for the UK's decoupling is that there are too many poor countries within the EU, and they are unwilling to take responsibility for the economic support of other members. There is information that the Ukrainian economy may go bankrupt in March next year, and the country can hardly be described as "the poorest country" now. Therefore, Ukraine's accession to the EU has the only effect of dragging down the EU's economic development.
In the face of such an economic oil bottle that needs other members to be fed by bloodletting, who wants to accept it?Therefore, in order to prevent Ukraine's accession from dragging down its own economic development, not only Hungary, but other EU members, including Germany and France, are ostensibly supporting Ukraine's accession to the EU, but in fact they are the ones who are most reluctant to let the country join the EU.