Comments by "Peter Lund" (@peterfireflylund) on "Zelenskyy Wants to Accelerate EU Accession: Ukraine–EU negotiations" video.

  1. Deserve’s got nothing to do with it. They need to implement EU law before they can join — and they have barely started.
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  2. Ukraine needs to implement the Acquis -- and do something about its oligarchs. The anti-corruption laws have to actually be enforced. That's not something the EU can do for them. It's up to Ukraine.
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  3. I don't. Ukraine needs to implement the Acquis and that's it. That cannot be negotiated away or swept under the carpet with some nice words. The ball is entirely in Ukraine's court.
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  4.  @brentjamescollins9731  Ukraine has done around 5% of what it needs to do. As you may have gathered by now, Ukrainians like to use big words about the future that might not entirely match reality. We like them and most of us want them in the Union, but Ukraine is the one dragging its feet, not us. The situation with NATO is different: everybody knows they can’t join until the war is won, but we need to discuss now when/if we want them as members and what to do until they can join. Maybe some sort of semi-membership with security guarantees until Turkey/Hungary/France/Germany grow up and let them in. Most of us would be very happy to see them in NATO.
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  5. We in the EU can’t implement Ukrainian law for them, you know that right? Ukraine needs to implement the Acquis Communautaire before it can join and it has barely started. (Google is your friend if you don’t know what “Acquis” means.)
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  6.  @brentjamescollins9731  The Acquis Communautaire. Basically all the EU law, which has to implemented as national law in Ukraine. You can’t become a member without implementing almost all of it. We allow for some exceptions here and there + gradual implementation over many years in some cases — that’s what the negotiations are about — but Ukraine has so much work to do here that whatever it implements in the next few years won’t take it from “almost no acquis” to anywhere close to the things that can be negotiated. The ball is in Ukraine’s court, not ours. Wikipedia has pages about Ukraine’s accession to the EU and about he Acquis and about previous EU enlargements. There are timetables so you can see how long previous negotiations took and how long it took for other countries to implement the Acquis.
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  7.  @heyidiots.  nope. You don’t know what you are talking about.
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