A critical look at the European aspirations of Ukraine and Poland’s position

Abstract

The proclamation of a new state named Ukraine in 1991 changed the geopolitical situation in Europe because it entered the circle of the six largest countries of the continent. Already in 1994 Ukraine signed an agreement with the EU on partnership and cooperation. In the period 1998 2015, 15 meetings of EU and Ukraine on joining the European structures took place. Although the Copenhagen criteria haven’t been met, the association agreement was signed and ratified by several EU Member States. As a result of many internal processes and implementation of politics based on extreme ideologies Ukraine, after only 25 years of its existence, became a fallen state riddled with corruption, an oligarchic-mafia system governed by the neoban derism ideology. It is a country endangered by breakup of its territory or entering the orbit of the influence of Russia; this is what the current war is about. Thus, the efforts of the Ukrainian authorities to join the structures of the EU seem to be completely unrealistic and useless.