Fast Tracking Ukraine into the EU

No. Because membership MEANS something. It is not like being admitted to the golf clubhouse like other members (even though you wear football boots with large studs and hit heavy metal balls with a hockey stick on tarmac, which now you’re in the clubhouse you might do on their greens).

You have to take a round with the club captain and prove you can play, first. Yes, some symbolic probationary membership might be cobbled together but that would take too long to be specified (and it WOULD HAVE TO BE specified) and then any other non-EU country could say “well you have these new rules about probationary membership and I want in too”.

The EU cannot expedite Ulkraine’s membership in its own without Ukraine - the joining country has to PROVE (and legislate) a hell of a lot of stuff first. Nobody can do it for them.

(And I say all this as a Brit recently thrown out against my will - getting back in will mean we have to do it all over again!)

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