Mykhailo Pashkov, Co-director of the Razumkov Centre’s Foreign Relations and International Security Programmes, explains why Ukraine should already prepare measures to join the European Union.
Russian intervention has radically accelerated Ukraine’s European integration and has forced Brussels to reconsider its “eastern” strategic priorities. The European Neighbourhood Policy already looks archaic, and the EU’s “Strategic Compass” for security and defence requires at least rethinking.
We have been writing a lot about the need for a new quality of EU-Ukraine relations, and it starts emerging only now — unfortunately in the conditions of war.
