Kuleba claims the EU is not ready for Ukraine

Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba stated on Sept. 10 that
the EU was not ready for Ukraine. Speaking at the Yalta European Strategy’s
(YES) brainstorming session, he pointed out that there is more than reform in
the process of joining the EU. “But it makes me sad when they insist that we
should carry out the reforms without telling the truth. For now, you do not
want to accept us not because we are not ready, but because you are not
ready,” YES quoted him in a news release.

In turn, Estonian president  Kersti Kaljulaid
stated that both the EU and Ukraine have to work harder at integrating Ukraine
into the union. However, “the main prerequisite is that the Copenhagen criteria
have to be met,” she said.

James Hydzik: Even if
Kuleba’s statement is correct, saying it won’t clear the air with the EU, or
make anyone feel sorry for him or the government he represents. The Foreign
Ministry has just pulled off a major task, namely the working visit of President
Zelensky to Washington, while simultaneously handling its share of the Crimea
Platform Summit. These point to a functioning bureaucracy, and for the
ministry’s leader to, essentially, whine, does not help their work.