I don’t think that threatens it. The fact that something is being done against curruption is actually a good sign. Many EU nations had corruption problems. It happens. It’s being dealt with.
For example, look at Gerhard Schröder, who went to work for Nord Stream, Rosneft, and Gazprom right after he was chancellor of Germany and helped making deals with them. Now he is Putins lapdog he wants to send to oversee negotiations. Like holy shit man, that’s like treason level corruption.
When you look for corruption you find it. Which is why corrupt nations end up higher on the corruption indexes than nations trying to fix themselves.
It baffles me that there is a foreign 3rd party office in Kiev investigating corruption and presidents close circuit is still involved with shit like this.
Its not foreign though. Anticorruption institutions were heavily pushed by EU, but it’s locals in them. And it’s civil society keeping those alive, let’s be honest.
Thanks for the clarification 👍
It’s another reason not to read ‘Politico’ (and OP’s posts, who frequently cross-posts Chinese and Russian propaganda narratives).
The title of strongly misleading as there is just a single reference to Ukraine’s accession bid at the end of article, and all it says that it will be a longer process. This might be true, but the EU’s enlargement process is historically slow, with past candidates often requiring several years of negotiations. However, the EU has made it clear it’s ready to speed the process up. Kos and Kallas (the EU’s commissioners for enlargement and foreign policy, respectively) announced just this week to open all clusters for Ukraine’s and Moldova’s accesssion talks before this summer.
This is a clickbaity headline.
