A larger EU with Ukraine in it would stand up to Russia better Timothy Garton Ash
hat a difference a war makes. Four months ago, the leaders of France, Germany and Italy would not have dreamed of supporting Ukraine’s candidacy for European Union membership. But last Thursday, there they were in a sunny Kyiv, all emphatically endorsing it. If this week’s EU summit agrees, following the positive opinion just given by the European Commission, this really could be, as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy put it, “one of the key European decisions of the first third of the 21st century”. It could mark a further round of eastern enlargement of the EU,
