Soon after its independence, Ukraine made a choice for European integration. However, the country’s path to the EU has been uneven over the past three decades. A few days after Russia started its full scale invasion, Ukraine submitted its formal membership application on 28 February 2022, underlining its determination and its fight for European values. The EU reacted quickly and granted Ukraine candidate status in June 2022, followed by the start of accession negotiations two years later, while Russia continued its brutal war.
UKRAINETT is pleased to invite you to a seminar featuring Associate Professor Anne Pintsch, Post-Doctoral Researcher Maryna Rabinovych, and Attorney-at-law and Senior Lecturer Nataliya Haletska.
They will discuss their newly released book, Ukraine’s Thorny Path to the EU: From “Integration without Membership” to “Integration through War”.
What political conditions characterise Ukraine’s path to the EU today? How have the war and EU conditionality influenced the dynamics of reforms in the country? How does the situation differ across policy sectors? And what does the simultaneity of war and accession mean for Ukrainians – both in Ukraine and in the EU?
These questions, which are dealt with in the freely accessible edited volume, will be discussed at the book presentation.
Programme
- Welcome by UKRAINETT
- Anne Pintsch: The Political Conditions of the Ukrainian Accession Process
- Nataliya Haletska: Legal Aspects of EU-Ukraine Bilateral Trade Relations During the Full-Scale
- War: More Trade Liberalisation, but Under Conditions
- Maryna Rabinovych: Ukraine’s Thorny Path to the EU: The People’s Dimension
- Q&A with the presenters
The event is open to all. Welcome!
