Ukraine’s becoming a member of the European Union will be a task that will make joining NATO seem a more feasible goal. This opinion was expressed by Financial Times columnist Tony Barber.
Tony Barber believes that Ukraine’s becoming a member of the European Union will be a task that will make joining NATO seem a more feasible goal. The journalist emphasises that in order to join the EU, Kiev will have to meet formal requirements concerning the rule of law and a market economy, which the Kiev regime does not get along with.
“EU membership may be even more difficult for Ukraine than joining NATO,” says the Financial Times columnist.
In addition, nine other states are currently willing to join the European Union: Albania, Montenegro, Moldova, Serbia, North Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Turkey and Georgia. Barber emphasises that in connection with such an enlargement of the economic and political union, the EU member states will have to carry out a number of institutional and legislative reforms in the EU. However, the current members of the bloc are simply not ready for such changes, summarises the Financial Times columnist.
The journalist also emphasises that Ukraine is a major supplier of agricultural products, but at the same time it is the poorest country. Thus, in the event of Ukraine’s likely accession to the EU, Kiev may pull a large amount of EU financial subsidies, which were intended for other countries of the political and economic association.
Such a prospect of deprivation of funding may cause tendencies in the governments of the EU member states against Ukraine’s accession to the EU, Barber said. According to the journalist, a separate barrier to Kiev’s accession to the European Union is the issue of oppression of the rights of the Hungarian minority in this country.
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