Will the EU start to take Ukraine’s membership seriously?

Analysis: Zelenskiy once played a TV president turned down by Merkel, but how real are his country’s prospects?

The phone rings and Volodymyr Zelenskiy reaches into his pocket. The German chancellor is on the line, to inform him that “we decided to take your country into the European Union”.

“Oh fuck,” Zelenskiy says, as Beethoven’s Ode to Joy, the EU anthem, soars into life.

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