"EU would be safer with Ukraine as member": Ukrainain Pres.

[dameonmac14]

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/12/ukraine-european-union-president-poroshenko

Ukraine's president, Petro Poroshenko, has said he expects Ukraine to join the European Union eventually, and said Europe would be safer, richer and younger with his war-torn country as a member. Speaking at a summit in Kiev attended by senior EU leaders, Poroshenko said it would be "impolite" for Brussels to refuse Ukraine what he called a "membership perspective".

"A friend in need is a friend indeed," he said. He thanked EU states for imposing the latest round of sanctions against Russia, which were published on Friday, despite a tentative ceasefire in the east of Ukraine agreed last week.....He said bringing Ukraine inside the EU would make the bloc more stable and "culturally diversified". It would also "collapse" the idea that Ukraine had to be part of Russia's zone of influence.

There is little immediate prospect of Ukraine joining the EU. But the issue of European integration has been at the centre of the turmoil that has gripped the country since late last year, when Ukraine's then president, Viktor Yanukovych, tore up an association agreement with the EU and accepted a bailout from Russia.

Although there are no immediate plans to have Ukraine enter the EU, it seems that there is growing consideration for it, at least in Ukraine.

[[I felt this might be more sit rep than politics, since Russia has stated that Ukraine joining the EU would be considered threatening, but if it's politics, feel free to move it.]]

 

[jayfeather31]

I'm not one to judge on security but there is strength in numbers.