Ukraine will have to establish rule of law and an independent judiciary before it meets criteria for EU membership, no easy task with a system riddled with corruption inherited from its Soviet past.
The European Commission agreed on June 17 that Ukraine be grantedUkraine has pivoted towards Brussels for years but four days after Russia's full-scale invasion on February 24, applied to join the EU, which has reacted with expressions of solidarity.
Candidate status is the first official step towards EU membership although Kyiv's ambassador to the bloc, Vsevolod Chentsov told theHowever, Orysia Lutsevych, manager of the Ukraine Forum in the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Chatham House think tank said it would be"a mistake to postpone real integration to post-war."
Turkey first applied in 1987 and received candidate status in 1999 but talks have since stagnated. North Macedonia has been a candidate since 2005 and Serbia and its neighbor Montenegro have been candidates since 2010. Albania became a candidate in 2014.
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