On Thursday 7 March, the think tank Bruegel published a new brief on ‘Ukraine’s path to European Union membership and its long-term implications’, in which it argues that the prospect of EU membership has given a “crucial boost to Ukraine’s complicated economic and institutional post-Soviet transition”.
According to Bruegel, in the post-war period that will overlap with the accession process, the EU should “use [the accession criteria] astutely to create a better-functioning...