Last night.
Europe House, Mount Street Lower, Dublin 2.
Ukrainian father and daughter Mykola Marchenko and Olena Marchenko (above) joined fellow members of the Ukrainian community in Ireland outside the European Parliament Liaison Office calling on Irish people to support Ukrainian membership in the EU. Mykola arrived in Dublin from Ukraine on Sunday, to join Olena, who lives in Dublin.
Meanwhile…
European Union leaders will phase out buying Russian oil, gas and coal as Moscow’s war on Ukraine makes them realise they have to be less dependent on Russia, a draft declaration showed.
However, they are unlikely to offer Ukraine the fast EU membership it seeks.
Taoiseach Micheál Martin will join EU leaders in Versailles today and tomorrow, as Russia’s war against Ukraine, which Moscow calls a “special military operation”, enters its third week despite massive western sanctions.
EU to give Ukraine strong words of support, but fast-track unlikely (RTE)
The EU will never accept Ukraine as a member. No more than Turkey. They’ll pretend they’re looking at Ukraine’s application form, but they’ve already thrown it in the bin.
The EU let in Romania and Bulgaria, both of which were fairly poor, with fairly high levels of corruption. Now the two countries are making great strides in both of those areas – why not Ukraine, too?
The EU was in a lot stronger position when both of those countries were admitted.
The EU have learned from allowing Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Poland into the EU club. It’s been a political disaster. Ukraine has an absolutely enormous (and ultimately unplayable) debt to gdp ratio. The EU didn’t stablise Greece when the poo hit the fan, they’re sure not going to stablize Ukraine’s even worse debt, not to mention having to pour tens of billions into a now physically destroyed Ukraine.
They do not meet any of the requirements to be admitted to the EU
The union is already suffering greatly from countries being admitted in the past without properly meeting economic criteria – to admit the quite corrupt and economically weak Ukraine would be the death knell for the Eurozone
The ‘European Union’ is not the same thing as the ‘Eurozone’ – plenty of countries in the EU that do not use the euro.
It is supported, through the established process and after fullfilling the requirements.