I’m afraid they won’t be ready for quite a while. And I’m absolutely against skipping any of the requirements. Though if we can exchange them for Hungary, I welcome them in EU with open arms.

Archive.is has been throwing forever Cloudflare challenge loops for me the last couple days. Would you mind sharing the original pre-archive link?

Agreed with the take that Ukraine is going to have a difficult road ahead if they want to join the EU. But that shouldn’t be the end of the discussion. We can set up EU-Ukraine deals like we have with Norway, UK, Switzerland and many other countries in the meantime. Deals to guarantee Ukraine’s defense and to provide help in the reconstruction of the country should have high priority.

Your link at archive.is does not respond right now. Can you give us some more on this ?