– It is of course unrealistic. Some will say fortunately, others will say unfortunately.

So cash says the senior researcher Flemming Splidsboel Hansen from the Danish Institute for International Studies in Ukraine’s announcement that the country will be a part of the european UNION in just five years.

In his eyes, the project is a non-starter, because the EU does not have the desire to include Ukraine in the union for such a short time.

Ukraine is a large country with a reformefterslæb, and it will require a great deal to get Ukraine up on a par – not with the EU itself, for it will take even longer, but to make them ready for recording. It is far in the future, says Flemming Splidsboel Hansen’s assessment.

He explains that it will hurt if the Ukraine join the european UNION, because there must be implemented a lot of reforms. But nevertheless, the end result will be attractive for the country.

– It can provide economic prosperity, and it can provide some of the goods, as someone sees in the EU, and as a number of the new member states also see in the EU.

– it Is also to cut the ties to Russia?

– Yes, it can be said. Then it will be conclusively, but it is actually already happened.

Flemming Splidsboel Hansen believes that Vladimir Putin is well aware that Ukraine, finally, has abandoned his team.

– He is annoyed about it, and he accepts it well not really. He can try to affect the current talk about the EU, by running an information campaign or a misinformationskampagne about what EU membership will mean for Ukriane.

– He can say that people are poor, that there will be all sorts of problems from the EU and so on, and it has already been made in several years. So he can try to screw up, but the question is just whether it is enough to affect ukrainians.

however, We need not fear that Putin’s struggle to win the ukrainians back on his side ends up in the war.

– I do not think that we should expect a military response. Russia is already deeply committed in Crimea and in eastern Ukraine, so I have a hard time to see that they will step up in the light of it here, says Flemming Splidsboel Hansen.

Policy – 26. nov. 2018 – at. 13:55 Expert: Russia is trying to control the disputed territory