Ukraine’s application to join the European Union took place on February 28, just four days after Russia invaded the country. “There is a causal link”, according to Dorota Dakowska, professor of political science at Sciences Po Aix-en-Provence. The war has accelerated kyiv’s approach, but the European aspiration has been a feeling shared by many Ukrainians for many years. The Maidan revolution, with the signing of a cooperation agreement between Kyiv and the EU in 2014, was the starting point.
To join the Twenty-Seven, the road to kyiv will however be long: many reforms, particularly in public administration, have been implemented over the past eight years, underlines the researcher specializing in the EU and Eastern Europe. . But the Ukrainian economy, damaged by the war “of annihilation” led by Moscow, and the oligarchic system conducive to corruption will still need to be reformed to conform to “the acquis communautaire”.