Watch: Is Ukraine ready to join the EU and how long could it take?

Ukraine is on the cusp of changing into an official candidate to hitch the European Union.

The long-awaited breakthrough comes after the European Fee endorsed Kyiv’s software and put ahead a sequence of reforms and measures the nation must undertake by the tip of this 12 months, together with within the fields of corruption, cash laundering and media freedom.

Whereas total constructive, the Fee’s opinion reveals an intensive listing of shortcomings and normative divergences that serve to anticipate prolonged and sophisticated accession talks, throughout which Ukraine has to regularly incorporate your complete physique of EU legislation.

The last word goal is to make the candidate nation in a position to face up to the financial competitors inside the single market and to align itself with the bloc’s excessive democratic requirements.

Is Ukraine prepared for this? How lengthy will the entire course of take? Can all of it be reversed?

Euronews spoke with two EU enlargement consultants, Richard Youngs, senior affiliate at Carnegie, and Dr. Ilke Toygür, analysis fellow at SWP Berlin.

Watch the video above to know extra about Ukraine’s EU bid.