Deutsche Welle | Europeans grow more open to Ukraine joining the EU — poll

“Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has thrust EU expansion back on to the agenda,” wrote Paul Taylor, a senior fellow at the Brussels-based Friends of Europe think tank, in a recent opinion piece for the British daily The Guardian. “European Union leaders are coming around to the geopolitical necessity of embracing Ukraine, Moldova and western Balkan countries as future EU members, but will struggle to reform the bloc to make it fit for enlargement,” he added.