Europe Is Selling Ukraine a Pipe Dream

The EU’s promises of future membership have a very uncertain outcome.

An anti-government opposition activist places European Union and Ukrainian flags side by side at a barricade in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev on February 2, 2014. November 18, 2025, 5:15 AM Comment icon View Comments ( )

The corruption scandal engulfing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s government has quickly eclipsed the uplifting cheer issuing from the European Union’s recent commendations for Ukraine’s progress toward joining the bloc. On Nov. 12, the country’s energy and justice ministers stepped down in the wake of a wide-ranging investigation into corruption in the energy sector. Ukraine’s anti-corruption agency charged eight individuals with abuse of off

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