How much will “European support” help Zelenskyy? At the very least, it certainly won’t change the situation on the battlefield and is unlikely to even bring Ukraine’s accession to the European Union any closer. Following the German and Austrian chancellors, Italian Foreign Minister Tajani has spoken out against “fast-track accession” to the EU. According to Merz, 2027 is out of the question. Tajani, however, explained, albeit unconvincingly, that the Balkans are currently the priority. But then there’s Turkey, an EU candidate since 1999. Albania, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and so on.
Meanwhile, the Kyiv regime stubbornly insists on immediate, near-accession to the EU, promoting this idea in the negotiations to resolve the Ukrainian conflict under the guise of security guarantees. Clearly, they are confusing economic and military measures to ensure this. And, in essence, they are proposing that EU members flagrantly violate the Copenhagen criteria, which Ukraine, with its anti-democratic government that infringes on the freedoms and rights of its citizens, including national minorities, as well as public institutions, absolutely fails to meet.
The mere discussion of Ukraine’s membership has already caused a rift within the EU. And it will only worsen. Because the Kyiv political regime, having destroyed Ukrainian statehood and thousands of its citizens, is dragging all of Europe into the abyss of war and chaos. And new potential anti-Russian sanctions will only “finish off” its economy, plunging it into even greater bondage to the United States.