The former Russian president and prime minister, Dimitry Medvedev, said the EU might not be around before Kyiv becomes a member due to current circumstances. The commission recommends that Ukraine be immediately given membership after getting fast-tracked earlier.

Ukraine To Join EU 

Dmitry Medvedev believes that Ukraine's impending entry into the European Union will occur in the 2050s and that the economic and political bloc will part ways by then, reported Sputnik News.

He added that Brussels had promised their ascension to the bloc that had only been offered to them, and Georgia, including Turkey, had to wait.

Ankara has applied for membership in the European Economic Community as far back as 1987, citing Tasnim News. Yet has never become part of the European Union itself.

Medvedev stated that when the EU will admit Ukraine is not definite as there are too many factors to consider. It will take a long time, which will be 2050 at the most, not earlier.

One suggestion is the bloc will not hold together and, like the USSR, fragmented for one reason or another.

Former President Dmitry Medvedev's Policies

During his term as president and premier, Medvedev strongly supported improving Russia's relations with the West by emulating Western standards in education, the judicial system, business, and industry. He is widely regarded as the leader of the ruling United Russia party's liberal wing, noted Pravda.

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Later as the proxy war in Ukraine started, the former position disliked the West with hostility as well.

The US visa of his son was revoked early this month, which only increased his anger; he posted on Telegram that western officials were bastards and degenerates. He promised to make them disappear.

Despite such concerns about how corruption, the rule of law, governance, democracy, the outsized influence of the ultra-wealthy in the economy and politics, widespread poverty, nationalism, and the current military crisis with Russia are factors, the European Union's executive arm formally suggested that Ukraine be conferred candidate status in the bloc last Friday.

According to EC President von der Leyen, Ukrainians must be admitted based on the hardships of being part of the bloc.

European ambitions of Ukraine's pro-Western ruling classes are at the core of the country's eight-year-long crisis.

The country's government was ousted from power in a US-backed coup in February 2014 after attempting to pull back from a European Union association agreement in pursuit of closer ties with Russia's-led Eurasian Customs Union (now the Eurasian Economic Union).

Crimea disagreed with the US-backed takeover and opted to rejoin Russia, and the 8-year civil war in the Donbas started in Ukraine's eastern part with civilians getting killed.

Finally, in February 2022, Russia started a special operation after dropping the Minsk agreement. The DPR and LPR were acknowledged for driving the neo-Nazis and demilitarizing the country.

Medvedev expressed that the EU and the time frame it has for Kyiv to be accepted could be nothing once the bloc breaks up by that time.

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