Taoiseach @MichealMartinTD has urged other leaders to endorse candidate status for #Ukraine, telling European Parliament he hopes a “clear and positive message” will be sent to the people of Ukraine when the European Council meets later this month. @rtenews @EPinIreland pic.twitter.com/YufsKs68Cr
— Mary Regan (@MaryERegan) June 8, 2022
This morning.
Brussels, Belgium.
Meanwhile….
Unilateral action by the British government to set aside parts of the Northern Ireland Protocol would mark an ‘historic low-point’, Taoiseach Micheál Martin has told the European Parliament | Read more: https://t.co/ufmS5NQyHm pic.twitter.com/iWBu14THSX
— RTÉ News (@rtenews) June 8, 2022
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Nobody wants Ukraine in the EU – they are an economic basket case and dont meet any of the criteria for accession into the union.
That’s not quite true. Many would accept the Ukraine into the EU quite happily (https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-membership-for-ukraine-victory-for-europe-integration-russia-war/).
And let’s not forget that many of the nations that make up the 27 were ‘economic basketcases’ before they joined.
Including us
– anyway, ‘candidate status’ is not the same as being let in. Just the EU and Ukraine laying their cards on the table as to their intentions, so to speak.
“66% – Ukraine should join the EU when it is ready”
That is a very misleading question for you to infer people are happy for them to join now. When they are ready could mean when they meet the accession criteria (currently they do not come close).
Until they sort out their country they should not be allowed join. Nobody should skip the queue, else we end up with an even worse eurozone.
Also the majority of the 27 had to meet entrance criteria, only for a few was it expedited (and the results have shown it to have been an awful idea)
That’s right run by a coke head who decided to taunt the biggest *astard on the planet
Personally if you want to put your head in a tigers cage you do it alone not involve all your citizens in the death wish
Any leader who puts the lives of his people at risk is no presidential candidate
Now as a result of that jack ass the world is in meltdown
I think the EU can do without that
I would say the war will be over in a month and Ukraine now will be a far smaller country with Russia controlling the east of Ukraine by independent but Russian friendly ex ukrainian states run of course by puppets
they produce grain and oil and they will be most welcome.
Grain yes, but not so much oil. I don’t think they produce enough to supply themselves (open to correction of course).
sunflower oil
1/5 of world supply comes from Ukraine
necessary for all sorts (not just yer frying pan)
We need Ukraine’s wheat and sunflower cooking oil, so it would be an asset to the EU.
Scottser
They may produce oil gas grain vegetable oil and fertiliser ,but the new Ukraine will be missing the parts that produce oil gas steel and minerals
And by the time the war is over I think joe soap will no longer be welcoming them joining
We are going to find winter here very costly and there will be outages
Maybe something like a three day week
Dam right another corrupt country that decides to kick the poo out of the east since 2014
Mehole better start realising that our situation is pretty bad heading to a return to the old days
Maybe it’s time to look after Irish interests
We are Irish first and part of the EU second
You’d really wonder whether someone is pulling Mehole’s strings – he couldn’t really be that vacuous, could he?
Hmmm… Irish interests.
Perhaps we need all the Ukrainians we can get and the thinking is most of em won’t go home.
The Irish population is in decline, too many one child families or people with no kids at all.
Who’s gonna pay for all the massive civil servants pensions in the future?
We need a good aul injection of new humans now and then ;-)
As I’m sure you know, Micko, the people who’ve created the conditions for a collapse in our birthrate are the same ones who unilaterally decided we should ignore all EU & Irish Law surrounding immigration, to open our borders, cos borders are racist.
Not to mention that a rising population is only required by Ponzi Scheme Voodoo Economics, which requires constant 3 to 4% growth, an unsustainable plan on a finite planet but the basic premise our ”Economy” operates on.
The thing is, while the bourgeois Civil Servant class will be the last to be dumped on, they will be dumped on, eventually, there’s huge Civil Servant layoffs coming in the UK. Most of our Public Servants sincerely believe their end of the boat won’t sink.
Micko
We were not so welcoming towards afghans Iraqis Syrians Bernese North Africans
The future cannot support these massive public sector pensions
I think the crash that is coming might just put paid to the field of dreams from the public sector
Just wait until the cost of supporting 200 thousand Ukrainian refugees is leaked and where it’s coming from
I could hazard a guess future Irish generations
There is absolutely no way post war Ukraine would come anywhere close to joining the EU and besides, it is based on the presumption that the Russians are going pack up their bags, return all land seized and just toddle off into the sunset- that is not going to happen- they still have all the same border security issues as before.
What is looking increasingly likely is a smaller land locked west Ukraine with some sort of half merger arrangement with Poland but even then, the place will be a post war zone requiring huge investment just to make it functional again. And that is not even considering the problem of the armed to the teeth Azov Nazis.
So many on the ground journalists in Ukraine reporting what is happening ATM.
Russia has already won they are controlling new territory everyday, Kherson & Zaporozhye / Zaporizahzhia regions have already changed phone numbers and IP address to the Russian code…. Meanwhile main media outlets are pretending Ukraine has a chance, people here are waiting RTE to give an unbiased report it is truly mind blowing.
According to google there are 57,505,555 Phones in Ukraine. A dog cannot fart on O Connell street without a video going up online. Why are people not searching for real footage??
There’s tons of footage available & it all confirms that the AFU are on their last legs, at this stage, almost as many are surrendering as are being killed & injured, smart boys. Most people only have apps which pump the fantasies of the MSM into their phones.
I do not want WW3
AC
It is not what you want or what I want but what the USA and NATO wants
In this the same ‘The Ukraine’ famous for money laundering, covert bio-weapons labs, human trafficking and Nazzi’s?
Sure what undemocratic economic super union wouldn’t want them to join?
Regarding money laundering – who needs Ukraine? All the big EU countries have their “offshore” laundering operation – Germany has Liechtenstein (not to mention Luxemburg), France has Monaco & Andorra (not to mention Luxembourg, Itally has the Vatican and San Marino. And they all border Switzerland.
Spain has Andorra and Gibraltar.
With the exception Luxemb(o)urg, they are all outside the EU. Technically speaking – there are no actual borders worth mentioning.
The Brits are better at it though – they have the Isle of Man, Jersey, Guernsey, Gibraltar, the Caymans etc etc.
Ukraine was being used by the Big Boys of international money-laundering, though, the USA or to be more specific, Wall St. This was mostly opportunism, however, as the USA’s plan is to surround both Russia & China with nuclear missile sites & bio-weapon labs, the aim being to ”contain China”, (in their own words) & seize control of Russia, split it in three & exploit it’s vast mineral & energy resources. Without access to those resources, America is doomed, as is the EU. The latter, however, will be first into the landfill, as it continues it’s dire post-war strategy of being America’s toothless lapdog, when it should’ve been forging stronger links with Russia, an alliance that could’ve challenged America & kept Europe out of China’s sights.
So just ignore the fact they failed to meet any of the criteria and it was going to take 25 years before they could even apply.
https://www.rferl.org/a/juncker-says-ukraine-not-likely-join-eu-nato-for-20-25-years/27588682.html
It has to be said, the quality of governance in the EU, under von der Layen & Michels, seems to be heading downwards, to meet the Ukrainians half-way.