More than a dozen top European Union officials arrive in Kyiv, a top-level demonstration of support following new pledges of military aid as the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine nears.| Reuters
The last country to have joined the EU was Croatia in 2013, a decade after formally applying. Ukraine’s neighbor Poland took 20 years until joining in 2004.
Ukraine will have to transpose its national law to extensive EU legal standards from climate to labor to health, among others. * Accession criteria do not specifically say a country at war cannot become an EU member but the bloc does not want to import territorial conflicts. It did, however, allow Cyprus to join in 2004 despite Nicosia not controlling the whole island since Turkey’s 1974 invasion.
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