EU Ambassador: Ukraine can indeed join the EU by 2030

EU Ambassador to Ukraine Katarina Mathernova believes that the forecast that Ukraine could join the European Union by the end of the decade is realistic.

She said this in an interview with EuroPravda.

The ambassador noted that Ukraine has “broken the matrix” with its initiative in seeking to join the EU, starting with its application in the first days of the full-scale war, and the rather fast pace - compared to other candidate countries - can continue.

“I have already said in an interview before and I will repeat it: I believe that the goal set by President Michel - Ukraine's accession to the EU by the end of this decade - is realistic,” said Katarina Mathernova.

In response to EuroPravda's remark about 2030, she reiterated that she believes it is a realistic deadline.

“But joining the EU - and this must be realized - is not only a technical process of membership negotiations, which itself takes time. It is also a political ratification in all member states, because the accession of a new member means a change in the EU treaty. Therefore, it has to be ratified in the format required by each EU country. And this always takes some time. For example, during the 2004 enlargement it took about a year and a half,” the ambassador added.

Author - Dmitriy Levchenko, 19/09/2024