r/europeanunion • u/Miao_Yin8964 • 4d ago

Ukraine gets backing of Lithuania to bypass Hungarys EU block

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u/Cefalopodul 4d ago

I fully support Ukraine and Moldova in the EU but neither of them are ready to start any form of talks yet. They have immense systemic problems they need to resolve not to mention geopolitical issues like Transdnistria and Ukraine being invaded.

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u/tcptomato 3d ago

Starting the talks helps them fix their systemic issues.

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u/Cefalopodul 3d ago

Not really

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u/tcptomato 3d ago

Yes, really. Considering that is how Romania also progressed, you should know ...

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u/Cefalopodul 3d ago

That is not how Romania progressed at all. Romania was required to show concrete improvements before technical talks started.

We were given a big fat task list and technical talks only started when most chapters were cleared.

The only reason Romania was even considered as a potential candidate because Tony Blair made a deal with Constantinescu to vouch for Romania in exchange of Romania allowing NATO to traverse its air space and use its railways and roads in 1999.

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u/tcptomato 2d ago

You do know that we're talking about opening those chapters now so that work can be done to clear them?