Ukraine 🇺🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina 🇧🇦 Moldova 🇲🇩 Georgia 🇬🇪
The first three are already starting negotiations to become members, Georgia is just being granted the candidate status for now.
Ukraine: I am against it. Not because of Russia or anything like that, but the country is not in Europe anymore. We should not expand that far to the East.
Bosnia and Herzegovina: I agree. It makes sense to bring all former Yugoslavian republics into the fold and deny Russia their destructive influence.
Moldova: Undecided. Probably not. Certainly not with Russian troops occupying there.
Georgia: I am against it. Georgia is in Asia and hasn't even any EU neighbors!
Ukraine is a political move, and a risky one... it moves the EU closer to the war with Russia.
Bosnia and Herzegovina makes sense. Almost all of its neighbors (former Yugoslav states) are already EU members with the Euro as their currency. Bosnia and Herzegovina has its own currency, the mark.
Moldova is questionable.
Georgia becoming a candidate is similar to Turkey, which is a long-time candidate for EU membership, but denied membership until at least 2030.
Ukraine is going to need a lot of rebuilding after the war. Membership will make it easier for tradesmen to go and work their from other member states. I can see them benefiting from EU grants but I doubt it'll sit well with rising far right populist parties in Europe.
Not Serbia? Oh, that's right, they can't join because they're too close to Russia, and NATO doesn't like them (they destroyed Yugoslavia back in the 90's). Not that it matters anyway, because the EU is dying fast, and won't be around for much longer.
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i think russia forced the hand and may regret their aggression in ukraine beyond the consequences of the conflict itself. the EU probably sees that a major part of it's economic security is supporting countries that may be targets of Russia, and really putin's, desire to re-establish the iron curtain
I agree whit all exept Bosnia, i want Serbia to be the one forst accepted and then any other ex-Yugoslavian country.
Rep. Should be the first one and NATO should let Romania and give its suport for uniting whit Rep. Moldova and eradicate the shithole of Transnistria from the F FACE OF EART!!! As long Ukraine is still holding stron Odesa.
Georgia should be as well accepted as soon sposible, considering the separatists regions in that country i thing EU should agree whit Georgia to starv the Russian trups there to death, no eauropean money to ever go there, but in the rest of the nation yes.
Ukraine, i don't know how is posible but i'm ok as long EU can enshure security for them and the rest of the members (who are not in NATO)
But there’s a sickness within russia that needs to be dealt with. If the EU and/or NATO can tame russia then do whatever is necessary.
I’m still learning more about Eastern Europe culture and enjoying it, and then there are these mafia thugs (putin and his bitches) with nukes that think they can do anything they want without consequence. It’s aggravating for me but it’s horrific for those that have to live through it. I’m all for taming that bear or at least reminding him that enough wolves can take down a bear if necessary.
I mean, its about time I suppose. They have basically been in the future plans of the EU since the EU was really started but for one reason or another was always delayed. Its hardly surprising outside of possibly Ukraine.
After just rejecting Montenegro? I can understand Bosnia and Herzegovina (if not in that like), but... bluntly, it seems like a purely political move to save Georgia from another Russian invasion. Given that Russia's bogged down invading Ukraine, that makes sense; it's actually a pretty good time to do so. But Ukraine?
Look, I know that it's kind of like we've been going through the conditions that ran us into World War 2, and that I've objected to that, but choosing instead to lead us into a second World War one isn't really an improvement.
Maybe we should just let Russia into NATO and find a DIFFERENT stupid reason to kill each other.
UKRAINE? MOLDOVA? Yet they denied Montenegro's request to join, how interesting. Georgia and Bosnia I can make an argument for, but Ukraine and Moldova? They're two of the poorest countries in Europe. They will just take and contribute little to nothing like Poland did, then boast about how they modernized their countries. And those countries are too conservative. There will be the same problems that they have with Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic and Slovakia. No way in hell will all those countries you listed comply with the EU's woke immigration and LGBT laws. They're stupid for even trying to join. The EU is the worst political entity ever invented.
I like the idea but it's nit without risk. I do think in the long run it will help stabilize the world. The world is full of bully dictators and they need to be stopped.
Honestly I get it, they want to deter Russia from retaking their territories. With that said they will be at the whims of the European leadership which are notoriously corporate and tend to favour whatever Germany demands as it's an economic powerhouse. This means yes there will be investment but it's all to be paid back with interest at the moment the people of that country have the temerity to vote for someone who doesn't correlate with the interests of the Troika.
I think the move with Ukraine is terrible. A precondition for russia not attacking was the ukraine would never be entered in, yet here they are breaking that contract. There is an argument to be made that Putin would never have invaded if the European Union did not keep expanding to the East.
I approve. Russia needs to be more contained it seems.
I think it's great. We don't want another USSR forming under our noses.
Against cause they're poor countries they're not gonna bring anything good to us.
I'm a pro-European so I always support expanding the union's membership to new nations.
I do think the Europeans need to be more unified though.
To be honest, it doesn't matter much. What happens now in the EU is more like a circus than politics. We will see how this will unfold.
Very bad idea. All of them will require a lot of subsidies if they do actually join and all are too corrupt, especially Ukraine.
I think they want war with Russia. And their military cannot fight themselves out of a paper bag without Sugar Daddy USA.
The 4th Reich is scraping the bottom of the barrel.
I'd like to see Armenia join too and eventually the Balkan states.
I guess I get Bosnia and Moldova, but Georgia and Ukraine?
Georgia better watch out after Ukraine. They need to join nato first.
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