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EU Membership: The Quest for the Holy Grail

In: The Political Economy of Independent Ukraine

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  • Oleh Havrylyshyn

    (University of Toronto)

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By the time Ukraine declared its independence on 24 August 1991, nearly two years had passed since the Berlin Wall fell, and all of the Central European countries plus the Baltics were far along in negotiating formal association agreements; the Visegrad Four were signed in March 1992. These agreements compromised on the language concerning future membership. The EU (more concretely the bureaucracy of the European Commission) had been insisting they had nothing to do with accession under article 237, and concerned only association under article 238. The Central European countries (led by Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary) had been pressing for a clause noting the AA was a stage towards accession. The compromise language only stated the candidate’s ‘ultimate objective’ of eventual membership and said nothing from the EU side. Echoes of this debate are heard twenty years later in the EU–Ukraine discussions.

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  • Oleh Havrylyshyn, 2017. "EU Membership: The Quest for the Holy Grail," Studies in Economic Transition, in: The Political Economy of Independent Ukraine, chapter 13, pages 279-300, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:stuchp:978-1-137-57690-3_13
    DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-57690-3_13
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