L’Austria says no to the immediate entry of theUkraine in which’European Union. For the foreign minister Alexander Schallberg a “different method” is needed, reports the Austrian agency Today. Also because there are several states in the Balkans that are going a “long way to accession”. This is the case of North Macedonia, Albania, Serbia and Montenegro, which have been bidding to join Europe for more than a decade.
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For Schallenberg, “there must be other models than full EU membership” for Kyiv. So it would be enough to invade the economic zone or just keep the current status quo. It should also be noted that the statements of the Austrian foreign minister were also noticed in Russia: in the news aggregator News.yandex.ru they became one of the most important news of the day, with dozens of online services across the territory.
Kiev’s response: “Disappointed”
Great bitterness comes from Ukraine over Schallenberg’s words. Oleh Nikolenko, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister, declared his “disappointment” at his counterpart’s comments. Also because Austria’s position represents a brake on Ukraine’s EU accession. A domino effect is also feared: with other nations refusing to join. For Nikolenko, Schallenberg’s statements are “strategically short-sighted and contradict the interests of a united Europe”. Not only. “These statements also ignore the fact that the overwhelming majority of the population of the founding members of the EU supports Ukraine’s accession,” added Ukraine’s foreign minister, quoted by the Ukrinform news agency. Nikolenko recalled that Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba had already stated that “the Ukrainian people are paying too high a price for the mistakes of many European governments. Their partial perception of reality has already led to the political and economic weakening of Europe, has allowed Russia to undermine stability in the EU ».
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The Austrian position contradicts the last words of the EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Kiev’s accession to the European Union. “They are ours. We want to have them in,” he emphasized at the end of February. While in early April the President was visiting Ukraine to visit some of the places most affected by the Russian attacks, she took the opportunity to meet the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, to whom she handed a questionnaire useful for starting the procedure for applying for the inclusion of the Ukraine into the European Union.
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