The European Union before Russia . Russian President Vladimir Putin launched the war of aggression against his neighbor Ukraine seeking to keep the country in his orbit, turning it into a vassal state of Moscow like Belarus already is. Ukrainians have resisted, with essentially European and American help, for almost two years and a long time to become members of the European Union (and NATO), to leave this post-Soviet world to join the political construction of the continent. This Thursday they received in Brussels the political signal they longed for, the light they can expect to see when they emerge from the tunnel of war.



The European Union, with the abstention of Viktor Europe Mobile Number List Orban's Hungary (which was absent from the room not to vote because a single negative vote would have blocked the process) decided to formally approve the opening of accession negotiations with Ukraine and Moldova, another country that formed part of the Soviet Union. Russian President Vladimir Putin had threatened early Thursday to continue the war until the objectives he had set at the beginning were achieved. He wants a vassal country, demilitarized and unable to choose its international alliances. He also talks about “denazifying” Ukraine, a country with a Jewish president, Volodymyr Zelensky.







The European move is a historic turn , because although accession will take years, probably more than a decade, that decision has never been revoked. Chartering the accession ship is laborious, but once at sea there is no stopping it. Volodymyr Zelensky in Germany. Photo EFE If Europeans respect their political tradition, Ukraine and Moldova will become members of the bloc at some point in the next decade. . With the entry, during those years, of Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, North Macedonia, Kosovo and Bosnia-Herzegovina, we will now be facing “the Europe of 35”. That group of six countries (West Germany, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands) that launched the European Coal and Steel Community to stop killing each other after two world wars.