Leonid Litra, Senior Research Fellow at the New Europe Center, co-authored with Marie Dumoulin, Director of Wider Europe programme at ECFR, Lykke Friis, Co-chair of ECFR’s Council, Director of the Danish Think Tank Europa and Gustav Gressel, Senior Policy Fellow at ECFR, the paper “Sustain and prosper: How Europeans can support Ukraine” for the ECFR.
The paper is offering several ideas on how to support Ukraine on the long term and how the EU could plan better use of its resources to help Kyiv.
Summary:
- The EU has already provided unprecedented support to Ukraine as it fights its existential war against Russia. But this war will not end any time soon.
- The EU and member states urgently need to ramp up and accelerate their military assistance for the long war and make stronger commitments to Ukraine’s long-term security.
- This will require them to develop their military-industrial capabilities. In addition, they should develop bilateral security arrangements with Ukraine and work towards bringing the country into NATO once the war is over.
- Ukraine’s EU accession, however, will ultimately be more transformative for the country. The EU therefore needs to ensure it is truly fit for enlargement to up to 36 states and take concrete steps towards making Ukraine a member state.
- The EU should view this support for Ukraine as an opportunity to enhance its military production facilities, raise its geopolitical profile, secure its neighborhood, and stabilize the contour and modus operandi of a larger European Union.
More details: https://tinyurl.com/5n6usmtj
