CER Podcast: Ukraine's road to EU membership

Centre for European Reform

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🗓️ 13 September 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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In this week's Centre for European Reform podcast Ian Bond, Director of Foreign Policy, and Hennadiy Maksak, Executive Director of the Ukrainian Prism think-tank, look at Ukraine's path to EU membership after a year and a half of war with Russia. The EU has given Ukraine candidate country status and by the end of the year, it should take a decision on opening membership negotiations. Hennadiy sheds some light on the mood in Ukraine and the pair discuss the progress Ukraine has made in meeting the EU's seven criteria, President Zelensky's decision to treat corruption in wartime as high treason, and the likelihood of elections in wartime conditions. Produced by Octavia Hughes Music by Edward Hipkins

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0:00.0	From the Center for European Reform, this is the CIA podcast.
0:04.0	Poson us seriously the question of the
0:05.9	future that we want, and we all
0:08.0	all together, the courage to it construct.
0:10.5	For us in Germany, is the
0:11.9	Bekenness to the European Europe,
0:14.0	a part of our state's resolve.
0:15.6	A strong united Europe is a necessity for the world,
0:17.9	because an integrated Europe remains vital to our
0:20.1	international order. This is the moment for Europe world because integrated Europe remains vital to our international order.
0:21.3	This is the moment for Europe to lead the way towards a new vitality.
0:28.7	Hello and welcome to the latest podcast from the Center for European Reform.
0:33.4	I'm Ian Bond, the CEO's foreign policy director.
0:35.9	And it's a little over a year and a half
0:38.2	since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
0:41.7	A lot has happened in that time, much of it unimaginably awful for Ukrainians, both military
0:47.5	and civilian, who have been on the receiving end of Russia's brutal and indiscriminate assault.
0:53.9	But there have been some positive developments
0:55.9	in the last few weeks and months. In particular, Ukraine has taken back around half of the
1:01.4	territory that Russia occupied in the first weeks of the war. And Western countries and
1:06.4	organizations have rallied around to provide weapons and ammunition and financial and humanitarian assistance.
1:13.7	And looking to the future, we can see a road for Ukraine to joining the EU.
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